Editing Keith Moon (section)

===Passing out on stage===
[[File:Keith Moon.jpg|alt=Keith Moon playing the drums|thumb|Moon at [[Maple Leaf Gardens]], Toronto, 21 October 1976. By this point in his career, it was uncertain whether he could finish a show without incident. Except for two informal shows filmed for ''The Kids are Alright'', this was his last public performance with the Who.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=464–466}}]]

Moon's lifestyle began to undermine his health and reliability. During the 1973 [[Quadrophenia]] tour, at the Who's debut US date at the [[Cow Palace]] in [[Daly City, California]], Moon ingested a mixture of [[sedative]]s and [[brandy]]. During the concert, Moon passed out on his drum kit during "[[Won't Get Fooled Again]]". The band stopped playing, and a group of [[road crew|roadies]] carried Moon offstage. They gave him a shower and an injection of [[cortisone]], sending him back onstage after a thirty-minute delay.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/roger-daltrey-interview-2018|title=Roger Daltrey: 'Keith Moon lived his entire life as a fantasy'|first=Dylan|last=Jones|website=British GQ|date=11 August 2018|access-date=12 May 2019|archive-date=6 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706140351/https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/roger-daltrey-interview-2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Moon passed out again during "[[Magic Bus (song)|Magic Bus]]", and was again removed from the stage. The band continued without him for several songs before Townshend asked, "Can anyone play the drums? – I mean somebody good?" A drummer in the audience, [[Scot Halpin]], came up and played the rest of the show.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=361–362}}

During the opening date of the band's March 1976 US tour at the [[Boston Garden]], Moon passed out over his drum kit after two numbers and the show was rescheduled. The next evening, Moon systematically destroyed everything in his hotel room, cut himself doing so, and passed out. He was discovered by manager Bill Curbishley, who took him to a hospital, telling him "I'm gonna get the doctor to get you nice and fit, so you're back within two days. Because I want to break your fucking jaw&nbsp;... You have fucked this band around so many times and I'm not having it any more."{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=475}} Doctors told Curbishley that if he had not intervened, Moon would have bled to death.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=457}} Marsh suggested that at this point Daltrey and Entwistle seriously considered firing Moon, but decided that doing so would make his life worse.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=476}}

Entwistle has said that Moon and the Who reached their live peak in 1975–76. At the end of the 1976 US tour in Miami that August, Moon became delirious and was treated in Hollywood Memorial Hospital for eight days. The group was concerned that he would be unable to complete the last leg of the tour, which ended at [[Maple Leaf Gardens]] in Toronto on 21 October (Moon's last public show).{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=464–466}}  During the band's recording sabbatical between 1976 and 1978, Moon gained a considerable amount of weight.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=492}} By the time of the Who's invitation-only show at the [[Gaumont State Cinema]] on 15 December 1977 for ''The Kids are Alright'', Moon was visibly overweight and had difficulty sustaining a solid performance.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=494}} After recording ''[[Who Are You]]'', Townshend refused to follow the album with a tour unless Moon stopped drinking{{sfn|Townshend|2012|p=264}} and said that if Moon's playing did not improve he would be fired.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=496}} Daltrey later denied threatening to fire him, but said that by this time Moon was out of control.{{Sfn|Chapman|1998|p=84}}