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Keith Moon to get London plaque
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 2 February 2009
The Who’s late drummer Keith Moon is to get one of those blue plaques in his honour, though not next to one of his former homes, but next to one of the sites occupied by the Marquee Club in London.
The plaque will recognise that some of Moon’s most famous drum kit trashing performances took place at the club.
According to the Independent, the plaque will be put up by a body called the Heritage Foundation, who exist to pay tribute to entertainment greats, with the permission of Westminster City Council.
That’s after English Heritage, who normally do the plaques, seemed lukewarm to the idea of commemorating Moon, allegedly because they were concerned about being seen to celebrate the drummer’s legendary hell-raising (though they say there are strict criteria for how historic you should be to get a plaque, and Moon simply doesn’t fulfil them).
The Heritage Foundation’s David Graham told the Indie: “Keith has been overlooked but was such a character – you don’t get characters like him any more. We were delighted to organise a plaque for Keith, and the Marquee is the perfect place because it was at the centre of the rock gigs in London”.
