Mick Jagger has recalled the time The Who‘s Keith Moon broke into his lodge room dressed as Batman for a midnight prank.
Talking to Howard Stern on his Sirius XM radio show, the Rolling Stones frontman revealed that someday within the Seventies Moon climbed up the hearth escape of his Los Angeles lodge with a purpose to get into his room.
“Keith was an entire lunatic,” Jagger stated of the late drummer. “I used to be in LA in a lodge as soon as, asleep, and he broke into my room dressed as Batman.
“I wakened and there was Batman in entrance of me, with a masks and the whole lot. It’s not what you count on in the course of the night time.”
Jagger then recalled conserving one thing for self-defence within the room. “I feel I had a knife, at the least some form of defensive weapon. So I pulled the knife and he stated, ‘Oh no, it’s Keith’.
“I stated, ‘You’re not Keith… I can inform you aren’t out of your voice’. He replied, ‘No, Keith Moon’. Then he took the masks off.”
Requested how Moon even received into the lodge room within the first place, Jagger replied: “He got here up the hearth escape. [He was] a nutcase.”
Moon died of an unintended prescription drug overdose in 1978 on the age of 32.
The Rolling Stones are at present within the US on their ‘No Filter’ tour which can subsequent cease in Nashville on October 9. It’s their first outing on the highway since the passing of drummer Charlie Watts.
Elsewhere throughout the interview with Stern, Jagger described the late sticksman as “the heartbeat for the band, and also a very steady personality”.
“He was to not be perturbed. He was a really dependable particular person, wasn’t a diva – that’s the very last thing you need in a drummer,” the frontman continued.
“I miss Charlie as a result of he had a terrific sense of humour and we additionally have been… outdoors of the band, we used to hang around quite a bit and have fascinating occasions. We appreciated sports activities, we’d go to soccer, we’d go to cricket video games, and we had different pursuits other than music.”
You’ll be able to see the Stones’ remaining ‘No Filter’ US tour dates under:
OCTOBER 2021
9 – Nashville, Nissan Stadium
13 – New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Pageant
17 – Los Angeles, SoFi Stadium
24 – Minneapolis, U.S. Financial institution Stadium
29 – Tampa, Raymond James Stadium
NOVEMBER
2 – Dallas, Cotton Bowl Stadium
6 – Las Vegas, Allegiant Stadium
11 – Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
15 – Detroit, Ford Subject
20 – Austin, Circuit Of The Americas
In the meantime, The Rolling Stones recently shared a previously unreleased track, ‘Troubles A’ Comin’.
The quilt of the Chi-Lites is about to seem on the band’s forthcoming 40th anniversary edition of their 1981 album ‘Tattoo You’, which can characteristic various beforehand unreleased tracks.
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