IT WAS September 1972 and The Who had just performed at a giant festival outside Paris, organised for the French Communist Party and attracting around half a million people. Back at the five-star George V Hotel after the gig, Keith Moon had made a bet he could drink 19 margaritas and then sing Danny Boy on the piano.
The band's long-suffering security man Jim Callaghan was deputised to keep an eye on the drummer. Upstairs in John Entwistle's suite, the bass player was sitting down to a late dinner. Manager Bill Curbishley recalled:"He'd got a napkin tucked into the collar of his shirt and a waiter on hand. The waiter had obviously just decanted a bottle of wine into a carafe. As I was catching up with John, into the room came Moon with 19 margaritas inside him.
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