Editing Keith Moon (section)

===Flint Holiday Inn incident===
On 23 August 1967, on tour opening for [[Herman's Hermits]], Moon celebrated his 21st birthday at a [[Holiday Inn]] in [[Flint, Michigan]] (though it was initially believed that he was actually turning 20).{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=194}} Entwistle later said, "He decided that if it was a publicised fact that it was his 21st birthday, he would be able to drink."{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=195}}

The drummer immediately began drinking upon his arrival in Flint. The Who spent the afternoon visiting local radio stations with Nancy Lewis (then the band's publicist), and Moon posed for a photo outside the hotel in front of a "Happy Birthday Keith" sign put up by the hotel management. According to Lewis, Moon was drunk by the time the band went onstage at [[Atwood Stadium]].{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=196}}

Returning to the hotel, Moon started a food fight and soon cake began flying through the air. The drummer knocked out part of his front tooth; at the hospital, doctors could not give him an anaesthetic (due to his inebriation) before removing the remainder of the tooth. Back at the hotel, a [[melee]] erupted; fire extinguishers were set off, guests (and objects) thrown into the swimming pool and a piano reportedly destroyed. The chaos ended only when police arrived with guns drawn.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=196}}

A furious Holiday Inn management presented the groups with a bill for $24,000 (equivalent to about ${{Inflation|US|24,000|1967|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}), which was reportedly settled by [[Herman's Hermits]] tour manager Edd McCann.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=196–7}} Townshend claimed that the Who were banned for life from all of the hotel's properties,{{sfn|Townshend|2012|p=37}} but Fletcher wrote that they stayed at a Holiday Inn in [[Rochester, New York]], a week later. He also disputed a widely held belief that Moon drove a [[Lincoln Continental]] into the hotel's swimming pool, as claimed by the drummer in a 1972 ''Rolling Stone'' interview.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=196–7}} However, Roger Daltrey, in an interview on [[BBC]]'s ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]'', stated that the group was banned from "an entire state's worth of Holiday Inns", presumably then Michigan. He also claimed that, while he had not personally seen a car in a swimming pool, he had seen a bill for damages and removal.