Fuck Yeah Oliver Reed

According to Robert Sellers’ book Hellraisers, Moon and Oliver Reed were placed together in a hotel far away from the rest of the crew during the filming of Tommy, quite probably for the safety and the mental health of the rest of the cast and crew.
One night, the pair sat up late, drinking. Finishing one bottle of brandy, they called down for another, but the porter didn’t answer the phone. Indignant, Moon picked up the television and threw it out of the window - it smashed loudly outside the hotel entrance.
The porter came running out. “Ah, there you are!” Moonie shouted out of the window. “Answer the fucking phone or my bed’s coming next!

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Keith Mooning’s.: Predator VS Alien: Moon and Oliver Reed Part 2

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In his autobiography, Reed all about me, Oliver Reed remembered one night when filming Tommy, when he came back to his hotel suite to find 14 girls swigging champagne and eating lobster sandwiches “I said: ‘Good evening, girls, what can I do for you?’ and they told me, but I was much too weary after my journey.” Guessing who was responsible, Reed eventually tracked down Moonie to his hotel room “He was lying on the floor of his bedroom, without a stitch on, with two Swedish models sitting on his face. I said: ‘Excuse me, Mooney’. He said: ‘Umm?’ or something equally unintelligible - Swedish girl’s bottomss are not conductive to articulate conversation.” Once Reed had told Moonie about the occupants of his room, Moonie “marched down the corridor, bollock naked”, and threw a tray of champagne glasses across the room to scare away the groupies. The next morning the two men, said Reed, wrote a song together with the touching lines: ”I want you to sit on my face/ I want you all over the place/ I want you when you’re on the loo/ I think that’s fantastic, don’t you?/ Oh yes’ “I knew the path to the bar” Reed said later, “but not to the bizzare. Keith showed me the way to insanity

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Keith Mooning’s.: Predator VS Alien: Moon and Oliver Reed, Part 1

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deletemybrain:

I was living with Keith Moon at the time and they were just about to start filming Tommy, Keith and I had spent all morning driving Soho’s sex shops buying dildoes, rubber stuff etc for Keith to use as props for Uncle Ernie.

At lunch time Keith decided to drop into Ken Russell’s office and mentioned that he’d like to meet Ollie before they started filming, Ken immediately got on the phone to Ollie and suggested a meeting, Ollie invited us to Broome Hall afternoon so we were off to Battersea Heliport where we boarded a helicopter to take us there. We arrived on his front lawn shortly afterwards, unfortunately frightening his pregnant horses, Ollie was standing there in the doorway holding 2 pint mugs whisky for us. He was a charming host and invited us to stay for dinner.

Dinner was served on a huge medieval oak table and before we started eating Ollie jumped up and grabbed two large swords which were hanging on the wall, giving one to Keith. The two of them ended up having a sword fight up and down the table, that was the appetiser! After dinner Ollie invited us down to his local pub, The Cricketers, where we all got very drunk, with Ollie and Keith undressing, each one trying to outdo the drunken antics of the other, they were so alike that it was no wonder they became great friends.

Later on, back at Broome Hall, Ollie insisted we stay the night, we were up for that, expecting to be sleeping in a magnificent bedroom, however, his entourage took up all the furnished bedrooms and we were led out to the stables!! Keith said we would pass up his invitation and go home, but Ollie would have none of it, and next thing we knew he was standing there pointing an old shotgun at us, so we said OK we’ll stay, we ended up sleeping on couches in the living room!

- Lee Patrick on Keith Moons and Oliver Reeds friendship

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