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Re: re-Hellraisers poll



>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:00:26 -0700
>From: Phil McRevis <legalize@xmission.com>
>Subject: Re: re-Hellraisers poll
>
>In article <20000322204226.7734.qmail@hotmail.com>,
>     "Nick Boyer" <slipkid905@hotmail.com>  writes:
>
>  > Does anyone know of someplace on the net that would have the accounts of
>>  some of these stories?  I'm not very learned on my keith-lore.
>
>Most of them are covered in Full Moon, which I can lend to you, Nick :-).

I'd recommend Tony Fletcher's _Keith Moon_ (also issued in the UK as 
_Dear Boy_) over Dougal Butler's _Full Moon_.  The former is an 
exhaustively researched biography while the latter is a very 
entertaining collection of anecdotes but IMO not trustworthy as to 
facts (the only example I can think of at the moment is that _Full 
Moon_ fell prey to the hoax claim that Keith was 20 at the time of 
his famous Holiday Inn 21st birthday party.  Fletcher was the first 
to simply check Keith's birth certificate, do the math and discover 
that Keith was in fact 21 at the time of the party, but told the 
papers he was only 20 to make the story better.)  Both books are 
essential reading but _Keith Moon_ is more factual and will give you 
a much more complete picture of the happy/sad person who Keith was.

Cheers,
Alan