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Dear Boy

The Life of Keith Moon

Tony Fletcher author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Omnibus Press

Publishing:23rd Apr '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 23rd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Dear Boy cover


Dear Boy is the best-selling biography of Keith Moon, rock's greatest drummer and wildest character. Hailed by critics as one of the most compelling rock stories ever told, the book traces with striking accuracy Moon's remarkable journey from his working-class North West London childhood, through The Who's glory years, to his California high life, and his tragic, premature death in 1978 at the age of just 32.

In researching a life now distorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, Tony Fletcher compiled poignant interviews with over 120 of Moon's friends, family and musical associates. The result is a searingly personal portrait of a boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him.

This remastered edition features many photographs from personal and Who archives, as well as a new foreword from Keith's daughter, Mandy Moon.


"Horrific and terrific reading." Q Magazine

"One of the great rock biographies." Record Collector

ISBN: 9781915841926

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

624 pages