Roger Daltrey on the Who: 'That Part of My Life Is Over'

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[dfwgator]

And the cherry on top, he died in debt to the tax man.

"Watch the police and the tax man miss me!"

[Gena Bukin]

They have a great history, but some weird twists, Keith Moon, died at the age of 32 in the same London hotel room as Cass Elliot, although Keith didn't choke on a ham sandwich.

It's crazy to think too that Zak Starkey (Ringo Starr's son) has been playing drums for The Who for the past 28 years, longer by far than anyone else.

Starkey's Godfather was Keith Moon and the man who taught him to play drums was not his father Ringo but Kenny Jones, the drummer who would replace Keith Moon. And Jones taught Starkey drums on one of Moon's drum kits.

[Bullish]

Keith Moon, died at the age of 32 in the same London hotel room as Cass Elliot

Wasn't it actually Harry Chapin's London apartment and not a hotel room?

[Olog-hai]

Who were you … who who, who who …

[Bullish]

Oops, I meant Harry Nillson not Chapin... My bad

[mmichaels1970]

The following morning they attempted to revive her by shouting “Gotta get up, gotta get out!”, but it was ineffective.

[George J. Jetso]

What happened to the Who, where did they go and why?

[Texaspeptoman]

!

[frank ballenger]

Another version of Cass Elliot’s death:
Several hours after Elliot left Jack Martin’s cocktail party, she died in her sleep at age 32. According to Keith Simpson, who conducted her autopsy, she died of a heart attack, and there were no drugs in her system. Four years later, the Who’s drummer Keith Moon died in the same bedroom, also aged 32 years.

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[Big Red Badger]

Pat Boone——
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He cut an Album singing Heavy Metal...
Dressed in Leather and Chains,go figure.
The Live show was a snoozer.
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The Who Are The Best !
GOAT

[DAC21]

“John Entwistle had the greatest rock and roll death of all of them. Died head buried Scarface-style in a mountain of cocaine with a harem of top-shelf Vegas hookers picking through his pockets.

And the cherry on top, he died in debt to the tax man”

Add insult tojury. When they hauled John’s body back to the UK for his services the pallbearers had to turn his casket 90° to get it through the Chapel’s door.....thunk...thud.

[DAC21]

“injury”

[38special]

I remember attending The Who Farewell Tour in 1989 at the Astrodome

[fidelis]

John Entwistle had the greatest rock and roll death of all of them. Died head buried Scarface-style in a mountain of cocaine with a harem of top-shelf Vegas hookers picking through his pockets. And the cherry on top, he died in debt to the tax man.

Sounds to me like an express ticket to hell. May God have mercy on his soul.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Roger Daltrey on the Who: 'That Part of My Life Is Over'

That part of everyone's life is over - Keith Moon and John Entwhistle have been dead for decades. Daltrey and Townsend by themselves are not The Who.

Say what you will about Led Zeppelin - they had the grace to ride off into the sunset when John Bonham passed instead of continuing to milk it.

[fidelis]

"I’m happy saying that part of my life is over.”

It always surprises me when people are surprised when musicians or actors say this. How many of us would go around living in the past of our past jobs or other past episodes of our lives and not want to live to the fullest and be appreciated for the persons we are today?

I remember a former child TV star replying to the question of why he did not reach out more to a fellow-ex-child star they worked with who slipped into drug abuse (and eventually died of an OD). He said, "We worked together as kids for two years on a TV show. That was thirty years ago! We'd kind of grown apart and moved on by then."

[Disambiguator]

I saw them in 1980 after Keith Moon’s demise, so some other dude was on drums.

[MikelTackNailer]

If you don't consider the Plant-Page tour 20 odd years back with Bonham's son doing drums and two young guitarists obviously in physical pain trying to keep up with old Jimmy. I would have enjoyed it more at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena but for their legion of PC Nazis harassing anyone "firing one up" or drinking anything other than over-priced kiosk beers.

Fascism and rock are not compatible.