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Rock's Hardest Partiers: No. 3
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Considered rock 'n' roll's most legendary wild man, the unbalanced Who drummer's drunken exploits make Ozzy Osbourne look like an insurance salesman. Whether he was driving around town in a Nazi uniform or sending a Rolls-Royce into a hotel swimming pool (and busting his front teeth in the ensuing chaos), "Moon the Loon" was always full of pills, brandy and devilish mischief. His 1978 death at the age of 32 was the ultimate joke: he accidentally OD'd on a drug that was meant to control his alcoholism.
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Peckerwood
Keith Moon, loved The Beach Boys...He and Dennis Wilson had a lot in common. I've always acertained that The Beach Boys were up there with the rest of these hard partiers. Think about it. I can explain it in two words "Charles Manson" Any musician that hung with Manson at his home and at Spahn LSD orgies. He ran for his life after paying for the entire Spahn Ranch bunch's STD bills is nuts. Brian didn't get out of LSD bed for three and a half years. He is the only one of the Wilson brothers to survive.
February 07 2010 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Andrea J.
Moon was the best rock star in the history of music. Period.
December 31 2008 at 9:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff
Eric Clapton did a mountain of heroin...but that was a long time ago....this is the MTV generation. Britney Spears...I'm still laughing at that one.
December 31 2008 at 8:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff
Ike Turner and Miles Davis both did more junk than half of these punks....maybe this is just the list of idiots that couldn't handle their buzz and got in the most trouble.
December 31 2008 at 8:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff
Hell....I could out party stupid Britney Spears, but I don't flash the clam to try to get in the headlines....(shit)
December 31 2008 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff
Oh yeah, and David Crosby only had a liver transplant, but he ain't on the list....like I said.....a punk ass list.
December 31 2008 at 8:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff
So Britney Spears is a big partier and Jerry Garcia doesn't even make the list......some punk ass made this list.
December 31 2008 at 8:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
dave walsh
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keith moon died in 1980 I believe
May 06 2008 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Andrea J.
Moon died Sept. 7, 1978
December 31 2008 at 9:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
todd
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Sorry...Keith should be numero uno, no one even comes close!
May 06 2008 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Buzzer
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Keith was a great drummer, but was figgin out of his tree! What a shame, what a loss, what a lunatic!
May 06 2008 at 2:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Jordan
I agree. An amazing but eccentric talent. It is sad that he died while trying to curb his acoholism. It proves that at the end of his life he was trying to come out clean.
Just goes to show, rehab doesn't work. About a dozen of the junkies on this list prove that alone.
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