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23. Mama Cass Elliot and The Who's Keith Moon both died in the same room, at the same age, 32

Sun Sep 9, 2018, 07:19 PM

Sep 2018

It was one of two bedrooms in a London flat owned by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson

Mama Cass died there of heart failure in July, 1974 at the age of 32.

On September 7, 1978, The Who's drummer, Keith Moon died there from an overdose of Clomethiazole, a prescribed anti-alcohol drug...Moon was also 32.

Nilsson, distraught over another friend's death in his flat, and having little need for the property, sold it to Moon's bandmate, Pete Townshend, and consolidated his life in Los Angeles.

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