The milk float had a couch on it and it was like a living room.
One was some people who had a pool we used to use, and then he’d drive us down there. There was this long driveway with two houses at the end. “There was a pub called the Golden Grove that was at the end of the driveway from Tara. On September 17, 1967, the band performed 'My Generation' before destroying their instruments on camera, while Keith Moon's kick drum exploded.
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I used to love the hovercraft and the milk float, those were my two favorite things. One band that made a lasting impression on the audience in the studio and at home was The Who, then a riotous upstart band from England trying to crack America. “What I mostly remember is going down to the pub on the hovercraft. I was six or seven when we moved there.”Īs she describes life with one of the most famous rock stars in the world, the challenges of a sometimes bizarre upbringing come clearly (and sometimes amusingly) into focus.”He used to call me his lion cub,” says Mandy. At Tara, it was the Beach Boys I remember. I didn’t really grow up listening to them, to be honest. “When I was older, I started to appreciate The Who more. I was still angry, because with mum getting together with Mac, he was a bit jealous and so it was best not to talk about Keith or say anything nice. “When I was a bit older, I realized that people do change when they drink. “The hardest part, sometimes, is that we left so young, and maybe the more negative memories stick out for you,” continues de Wolf, who later had to overcome her own problems with alcohol abuse. It’s a shame mum’s not around to talk about him. “I often say that I’ve spent my life talking about someone I didn’t even know that well,” she says poignantly. Moon’s daughter speaks of her father with an affection tinged with realism, as she recalls both the good and bad of the brief time in which he was in her life. The couple’s often violent life together, caused in large measure by Moon’s drinking, prompted the couple to split, after which Kim and Mandy went to live with Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan, formerly of the Small Faces, who married Kim in 1978. Mandy was Keith’s daughter by model Kim Kerrigan, born in the early days of The Who’s success. It wasn’t all about the wildness, he was really quite a sweet guy.” “It’s lovely to hear more about him as a person. “I think it’s lovely that it’s not so much about all his antics, as people who knew him, met him and admired him for his drumming,” says Moon’s daughter.
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