Birth Date
Before the release of "Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon" by Tony Fletcher in 1998, it was assumed that Moon's date of birth was actually a year later, on 23 August, 1947. This erroneous date appeared in several otherwise reliable sources, such as the Townshend-authorised biography "Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who." The incorrect date had been propagated by Moon in interviews, and accepted as correct, before Fletcher disproved it by producing a facsimile of Moon's birth certificate in his book.
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