Viv Prince had set the standards for rock ‘n’ roll excess

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When guitarist Link Wray, responsible for the crunching rowdiness of the 1958 instrumental million–seller ‘Rumble’, paid The Who a fraternal visit in the London studio where they were recording, Moon, seemingly beside himself with excitement, flung off all his clothes to cavort round the complex, arms waving. ‘Rumble! Rumble!,’ he kept yowling. And what about the night he won a bet that he could break into Mick Jagger’s eleventh floor hotel room? Clambering up the wall Spider Man–style, Moon burst through the open window to face the barrel of a revolver that Mick pulled from beneath a pillow. Though startled from slumber too, Bianca subjected her spouse to a jocular scolding for so alarming the intruder, before dressing, applying make–up, and going dancing with Moon while Mick remained huddled, bemused, under the bedclothes.