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Re: A review of the KM Biography
Pete said in one interview that he's tried to think of what they could
have done. Hire a doctor to follow Keith around? Well, (he said) that
didn't work for Elvis. It was the doctor who wrote him all those drug
prescriptions. And of course it was a prescription drug that Keith died
from.
Roger might have had the right idea early on. Just beat the shit out of
him.
keets
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:51:13 -0500
>From: Brian Cady <cadyb@home.com>
>Reply-To: cadyb@home.com
>To: TheWho@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: A review of the KM Biography
>
>One of the most telling bits in the bio is when Graham Chapman takes
Keith to
>his psychiatrist to get him help. After the session the psychiatrist
tells
>Graham two things: that Keith doesn't want to be helped and he'll be
dead in
>six months to two years. Keith was dead in five months.
>
>I really don't know what The Who could have done to help Keith because
Keith
>DIDN'T WANT HELP. He would have had to have been committed to a mental
hospital
>against his wishes and how long would that have lasted?
>
>Keith's activities at the time were only an extreme version of what
just about
>what all rockers who went on tour did. Keith just took to a higher
level
>(boozing, pilling, destruction) what everyone around him was doing.
And he so
>often seemed so cheerful. I really don't want to judge The Who about
Keith. If
>I'd been there, maybe I'd have missed that he needed care.
>
> -Brian in Atlanta
>
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