Olympics Organizers Ask Keith Moon to Play Closing Ceremony

[WolfeMacleod]

Now this is funny....





By Rolling Stone
April 13, 2012 11:00 AM ET
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Keith Moon at the Hollywood Palladium in 1977.
Mark Sullivan/Contour by Getty Images

Organizers of the London Olympics approached the Who's manager to inquire about having Keith Moon play at an Olympics event despite the drummer being dead for nearly 34 years, the Sunday Times reports.

"I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who's anthemic line 'I hope I die before I get old'," the band's longtime manager, Bill Curbishley, told the Times. "If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him."

Moon died in 1978 at the age of 32 from an an accidental overdose of prescription pills. The Olympics organizers wanted the late drummer to take part in the Symphony of Rock, a celebration of British pop culture that will be part of the Games' closing ceremony on August 12th.

[s_morrison57]

Idiots

[red-beard]

Rock is sort of hard on drummers...who are usually crazy to start with...

[Oh Haha]

Who is the f@#%tard on the committee who doesn't know that he's been dead for over 30 years?







I think they should try for John Bonham instead.

[ODDJOB UNO]

which ones "PINK?"

[targa911S]

Keith was to drums as Jimi was to guitar.

[yetibone]

A friend of mine (drummer) once told me jokingly that Keith had had all his hanging toms tuned the same so he'd never hit the wrong one.

[MBAtarga]

maybe they just got confused and were thinking of Keith Richards?

[techweenie]

I remember when a Phil Collins song was nominated for an academy award and the guy in charge said 'nobody has ever heard of Phil Collins, so we'll have somebody everybody knows sing his song.'




P.S. The 'guy in charge' was Gregory Peck.

[kanadary]

who's next on the list to invite, bonham? morons..

[GWN7]

It will be a really interesting olympics if he shows up ........