Keith Moon: Final 24: His Final Hours

Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who known for trashing hotel rooms and driving cars into swimming pools, dies on September 6, 1978, at age 32, after taking prescribed pills meant to curb his alcohol withdrawal. This episode of the Final 24 series reconstructs his last day hour by hour, cutting between that timeline and the arc of his life, from a suburban London childhood to a drum kit that regularly ended up in pieces on stage. Interviews with people who knew him, archival concert and interview footage, and dramatic reenactments fill in the excess that made him famous and the toll it was taking by 1978, including the earlier death of his chauffeur in a car Moon was driving. The format treats his death less as a single tragic accident and more as the end point of years of habits the film traces back to their source, asking what in his history made that final night almost predictable.