How Paul McCartney Responded When Keith Moon Asked to Join The Beatles
By 1966, The Who had become bona fide pop stars. “My Generation,” released late in the previous year, shot to No. 2 on the UK charts. “Substitute,” the band’s follow-up, cracked the top five in March ’66. That made four top-10 singles in about a year’s time.
But that didn’t make the band any less dysfunctional. In fact, ’66 was one of the high points for chaos within The Who. Though the band allowed singer Roger Daltrey back into the bands after he’d beaten up drummer Keith Moon, the situation hadn’t gotten much better.
In fact, by spring ’66, Daltrey was skipping Who gigs, which prompted speculation the band would replace him. Meanwhile, relations between Moon and Pete Townshend had deteriorated beyond belief. It included an incident in which Moon chased Townshend through a train car while wielding a knife.
Source: cheatsheet.com
