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The night Larry Hagman drove Keith Moon to rehab.
Anything and everything anytime
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and astronaut Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname “Moon the Loon”. Moon joined The Who in 1964. He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1964′s “Zoot Suit”, to 1978′s Who Are You, which was released three weeks before his death.
On 6 September 1978, the night of his death, Moon and girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax were guests of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney at a preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story. After dining with the McCartneys at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and Walter-Lax returned to their flat. The flat actually belonged to singer Harry Nilsson, who was loaning it to Moon. The flat, No.12 at 9 Curzon Place (now called Curzon Square), ShepherdMarket, Mayfair, was the same property where singer Cass Elliot died four years earlier.
Moon watched a film, The Abominable Doctor Phibes and requested Walter-Lax cook him a breakfast of steak and eggs. When she objected, Moon replied “If you don’t like it, you can fuck off!” These turned out to be his last words. Moon then took 32 tablets of clomethiazole (Heminevrin).
Clomethiazole is a sedative which was prescribed to Moon to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Moon desperately wanted to detox from alcohol; however, due to his fear of a psychiatric hospital, he wanted to do it at home. However, clomethiazole is specifically discouraged for unsupervised home detox because of its addictiveness, its tendency to rapidly induce drug tolerance, and its dangerously high risk of death when mixed with alcohol. The pills were also prescribed by a new doctor, Dr. Geoffrey Dymond, who was unaware of Moon’s recklessly impulsive nature and long history of prescription sedative abuse. Dymond gave Moon a full bottle of 100 pills, and instructed him to take one pill whenever he felt a craving for alcohol (but not more than three pills per day). The police determined there were 32 pills in Moon’s system, with the digestion of six being sufficient to cause his death, and the other 26 of which were still undissolved when he died.
Dangerous Minds
In this excerpt from British TV show The Real…, Larry Hagman spares no details in describing the time he drove Keith Moon to rehab after the drummer over-indulged in Black Beauties (amphetamine). Moon and Hagman were friends, having originally met on the set of Stardust, a 1973 movie about the Brit rock business starring David Essex.
2012-11-24 19:26:35
Source: http://markosun.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/the-night-larry-hagman-drove-keith-moon-to-rehab/
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