The most prominent Keith moon biography on the market today. I'm sure many of you have already read it. I first read this book when I was fourteen-years-old, already a full-fledged Moonie addict. I can still remember dragging my mom out to the Barnes & Noble so I could buy it after reading some positive reviews on Amazon.com. Anyway, the first thing you need to know about this book is, it's a monster. And by that I mean it's really freaking long. Not War & Peace long, but it does go well over 500 pages. I think this took me a week and a half to read the first time, which is saying something because I'm sort of a speed reader.

The second thing you need to know is this: sometimes it's excruitiatingly dull and repetitive. The author thinks he's Freud or something, because he's constantly doing psychoanalysis on Keith as he's writing. And there are points where you feel like you've read something before. The author seems intent on capturing every single episode of Keith's life, no matter how similar it is to an earlier event. Did that sentence make sense? I'm just saying, sometimes it's enough to say "He would often go to pubs and cause a ruckus" and leave it at that, instead of detailing every single solitary event where Keith went to a pub and caused a ruckus.

All that aside, this is a decent book. You can tell the author really gave a crap about his subject, which is refreshing. I also appreciate that he didn't gloss over anything. I know that Keith was a man of many flaws, and I can handle reading about them even in this often-excrutiating detail. Plus, there are three separate sections of pictures, which alone almost justify the price (although if you were to go out and buy the book just for the pictures, I wouldn't bother; I've scanned nearly all of them into the photo gallery). Everything you could possibly want to know about Keith (and some things that maybe you didn't want to know) could be found in this one volume.

Overall Grade: B+