Two Sides of the Moon
| Two Sides of the Moon | ||
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| Studio album by Keith Moon | ||
| Released | March 1975 | |
| Recorded | August–December 1974 | |
| Studio | Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles | |
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| Length | 29:02 | |
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MCA/Polydor (1975) Repertoire (1997) Sanctuary (2006) |
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| Producer | Keith Moon, Mal Evans, Skip Taylor, John Stronach, Steve Cropper | |
| Singles from Two Sides of the Moon | ||
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| Allmusic |
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Two Sides of the Moon is the only solo album from the drummer for English rock band The Who, Keith Moon. It peaked at #155 on the Billboard 200.
Moon was the last member of the Who to release a solo album: by this point, John Entwistle had released Smash Your Head Against the Wall (with Moon playing percussion and singing backing vocals) and Whistle Rymes (also with Moon), Roger Daltrey released his hit album Daltrey, and Pete Townshend had produced several Meher Baba tribute albums and the demo compilation Who Came First.
Moon had moved into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with assistant Dougal Butler in March 1974, to play on the sessions for Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats. The album was produced by John Lennon, who had been ejected from The Troubadour with Nilsson for drunkenly heckling a Smothers Brothers performance several days before Moon's arrival. The three, along with Ringo Starr (who also drummed on Pussy Cats), Lennon's girlfriend May Pang, bassist Klaus Voormann, Voormann's girlfriend Cynthia Webb, and Starr's manager Hilary Gerrard, moved together into a Santa Monica beach house for three weeks. The sessions were affected by Lennon, Nilsson, Moon and Starr's excessive lifestyles and drug abuse, ultimately prompting Lennon to relocate the sessions to New York City to separate himself and Nilsson from the Los Angeles party scene.
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