Director Jeff Stein holds the first day’s shooting of new film for The Kids Are Alright. The Who are shot arriving separately and rehearsing together “The Real Me,” “Bell Boy,” “The Kids Are Alright,” “Run, Baby, Run,” “Smokestack Lightning/Spoonful,” “God Knows (an instrumental)” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
The Who regroup at Shepperton Film Studios, the studio in which they hold a sizeable financial stake. With purchase and equipment upgrades, The Who have sunk close to a million pounds into the studio intending to rent it out to other acts. Moon, with whom the other band members haven’t worked since the previous October,… Read More »1977-07-11
Keith flys back to London from Los Angeles to prepare for planned filming on The Kids Are Alright.
Keith is released from Cedars-Sinai hospital where he had been admitted after a valium overdose
Keith Moon overdoses on Valium and is rushed to Cedars-Sinai to have his stomach pumped. The hospital puts Keith into the Thespians Ward for a drying out spell. While he is there he has seizures from alcohol and cocaine withdrawal.
The John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett LP is released in the U.K. It features the tracks “Murder Man,” “If I Did,” “Louisa On A Horse” and “Misty Mountain” all with bass and production by Pete recorded in 1973. It fails to chart
Keith Moon comes out of seclusion to join Led Zeppelin during an encore at the Los Angeles Forum.
John celebrates the 10th anniversary of his marriage watching The Pirates perform at Dingwall’s in the Camden Market, London. Curious what it was like? You can watch The Pirates and Dingwall’s around his time here
Official production of Who fan Jeff Stein’s movie of the band, The Kids Are Alright, begins
Part 15 of Tony Palmer’s history of popular music All You Need Is Love airs with several Who clips and scenes of Keith recording “Do Me Good” for a follow-up solo LP. What he manages to record ultimately turns up as bonus tracks on CD reissues of Two Sides Of The Moon starting in the… Read More »1977-05-28