On September 7th, 1978, Keith Moon, the high-spirited drummer for The Who, died at the age of 32 from an accidental overdose of the prescription drug Heminevrin, prescribed to combat alcoholism.

Keith joined The Who in 1964 before they released their first single, Moon appeared on the band’s first eight albums – from their 1965 debut, My Generation to 1978’s Who Are You, released two weeks before his death.

The album cover for the soundtrack to the 1979 documentary "The Kids Are Alright" by The Who was photographed at the Carl Schurz Monument located at 116th Street and Morningside Drive, Morningside Heights, New York City.

Photographer Art Kane took the photograph, said to be an allusion to a photo by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who had taken a celebrated picture of a vagrant asleep at another memorial - Trafalgar Square in London.

A popular outtake from the session features two children looking at the Who just off to the right of the band.



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