10 Most Rock N' Roll Things That Have Ever Happened

2. Keith Moon's Exploding Toilets

The Who were the real wild men of rock. Back in the 60s and 70s if they had been in town chances are there would be a raft of insurance claims in their wake. None were more destructive than drummer Keith Moon, a man who earned the nickname Moon The Loon for his downright bizarre and destructive behaviour. But it was his fascination with explosive things which gets him into this list; he famously almost killed his bandmates when he rigged his drum kit to explode with far more power than they were expecting, nearly deafening guitarist Pete Townsend on several occasions with his little detonations. For some reason though, he found it intensely amusing to destroy toilets. There was no rhyme or reason to it, he simply got a kick out of blowing them up wherever he went - not a single WC was safe from Moon, whether it was in swanky hotel rooms, backstage at gigs or even in airports (back before taking small explosives into an airport would have you on the receiving end of a cavity search; if there was porcelain in sight, chances are it would meet an explosive end. The most famous anecdote from the time had a hotel manager calling on Moon to turn down his cassette player in his room. Moon invited the manager up to the room to talk, and when he arrived Moon blew up the toilet in front of him. He then went back to his cassette player and turned it up again. Unsurprisingly, Moon and The Who were banned from almost every major hotel chain, especially across the US.