A new era of Who history began earlier this month with the launch of the Song Is Over farewell tour in Italy. The show marked not only the start of the band’s supposed last tour, but also the ...
There’s never a short supply of solo shows in which actors play famous people telling the story of their lives at length to no one in particular for no apparent reason. That description certainly fits ...
The opening round of our new March Drum Madness competition sees one of the biggest names in music today square off against one of the inventors of rock drumming, Dave Grohl against Keith Moon. We've ...
When drummer, comedian and solo performer Mick Berry first mounted “Keith Moon: The Real Me,” in 2013, the first thing audiences entering the Eureka Theatre likely noticed was the drum kit.
When drummer Simon Phillips joined The Who for their 1989 Tommy reunion tour, he was no stranger to guitarist Pete Townshend. Phillips had played on Townshend’s solo albums Empty Glass (1980), All The ...
Depending on the size of the venue, Mick Berry sometimes has to mute his instrument when performing his one-man show about Keith Moon. He puts mesh heads on his drums and dampening tape on his cymbals ...
Ringo Starr is one of the best drummers in the world. But he wasn’t the source of inspiration when his oldest son, Zak Starkey, chose to start playing the drums. Zak gave that credit to The Who’s ...
Two world-famous drummers took wildly divergent paths to get here. For Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden, there was the slimmest of victories in our new March Drum Madness bracket. For Keith Moon? A ...