Just a kid when she was famous.
Rock star wife Kim McLagan killed in Texas crash Thursday August
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former model Kim McLagan, who endured a violent marriage to late Who drummer Keith Moon and then enjoyed a more stable union with ex-Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, was killed in a car crash near Austin, Texas on Wednesday, the American-Statesman reported.
She was 57, the newspaper said on its Web site (
http://www.statesman.com). The two-car crash occurred on a country road 13 miles east of Austin. The paper said the McLagans lived on a 15-acre property in the area, and she owned a beauty spa.
A native of Bournemouth, Kim McLagan was the toast of "Swinging London" in the late 1960s, and appeared in the Beatles' live 1967 telecast of "All You Need Is Love."
She married Moon in 1966, but the marriage was difficult. According to "Moon the Loon," a memoir co-written by Moon sidekick Dougal Butler, she received "much GBH (grievous bodily harm) on the ears, not to mention actual GBH on various other areas of her person" -- much of which was witnessed by their daughter, Mandy.
She eventually left Moon while he was sleeping. In 1978, the year that Moon fatally overdosed on sedatives, she married Ian McLagan, former keyboardist with the Small Faces, and its successor band, the Faces. They had no children together, according to the American-Statesman.
Reuters
