Dougal Butler

Peter "Dougal" Butler is a British author and retired roadie. He is best known for being Keith Moon's personal assistant during the 1970s, and for publishing several books about Moon's life, Full Moon and Keith Moon – A Personal Portrait.

Biography Butler grew up in London at the same time as the Who became successful. He left school at 15 and worked for HM Customs and Excise (as had John Entwistle) before becoming a roadie for the band in 1967 or 1968. According to Butler, one of his early tasks for the band was to provide a getaway car so that Pete Townshend could steal a guitar from Jim Marshall's music shop in Ealing. He quickly became friends with Moon, regularly visiting the Speakeasy Club and after a spell of becoming personal assistant to Entwistle for 18 months, decided to switch to looking after Moon. Butler took the only photo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney together in the 1970s (and the last time they would be photographed together) when Moon attended a party at Lennon's beach house in Malibu in April 1974.

Moon's lifestyle eventually became too much for Butler, who phoned up Who manager Bill Curbishley, stating flatly that Moon needed to leave LA immediately.