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'Austin Powers' Auditions to Play Keith Moon 
Fri Feb 8, 3:43 AM ET 

LONDON (Reuters) - The Who's Roger Daltrey has
auditioned Canadian funny man Mike Myers to play Keith
Moon in a warts-and-all movie tribute to the band's
drummer, Britain's Sun tabloid reported Friday. 
  
"Moon the Loon" died in 1978 at 32 after a drug
overdose, but his legend as the original wild man of
rock lives on. 

Daltrey, 57, told the Sun: "Mike is a genius. I can
really see him as Keith. I went to some of the filming
of his new Austin Powers film and it's hysterical.
He's amazing when you meet him, so clever." 

Comedian Myers plays a spoof James Bond-style spy in
the Austin Powers series of films. 

Moon, famous for drunken antics that included driving
a Rolls-Royce into his swimming pool, wrote the book
on how to be a "rock 'n' roll lunatic," Daltrey told
the tabloid. 

"It must have been hell to actually be Keith Moon. How
do you have a day off? There aren't any days off and I
think he started to live the thing he created,"
Daltrey said. 

He said the film was still in the planning stages and
would be difficult to make. 

"Biographical films are the most difficult to tackle.
Keith was such an enormous personality it would be a
bit of everything. The thing about him is that he was
the ultimate of everything." 

Britain's own Robbie Williams has also been considered
for the part because, with his own battles with drink
and drugs, he reminds Daltrey of Moon. 

"There's a lot of Moon that I see in him, a lot of
demons. But hopefully he's got to grips with them,"
Daltrey said. 


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