Alan Moon


Alan Moon played his first gig at the age of 10 years old, in the music room at St Anne’s Catholic Primary in Manurewa. The nuns overheard him playing a piano rendition of a song he had heard on the radio the previous evening.

Despite being urged to take lessons, he didn’t stick with them, instead becoming a self-taught player and reader. With his keyboard and arranging skills he became a mainstay of top groups from the late 1960s, including Sons & Lovers, Littlejohn, BLERTA, Father Time, Fragments of Time and a later version of Think.

Sons & Lovers: Alan Moon, Kemp Tuirirangi, Peter Leef, Ali Matthews, and Scratch Rhea.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Fragments of Time, Hillcrest Tavern, July 1977. Left to right: Don Martin, Phil Smart, Alan Moon, Nick Hart, Steve Gilpin, Kevin Stanton.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Sons and Lovers promotional photo.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Sons & Lovers drummer Ali Matthews with Alan Moon at right.
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Alan Moon in BLERTA.
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Fragments of Time, 1977
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
BLERTA kids show at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth on the first North Island tour, 1972. Corben Simpson (vocals), Bruno Lawrence (drums), Alan Moon (Hammond organ), Beaver vocals and Chris Seresin keyboards.
Photo credit: Photo by Helen Whiteford
Father Time with Lindsay Brook (drums), Don Martin (bass), Alan Moon (keyboards).
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Sons and Lovers leave the bus behind and with new members evolve into Father Time. L to R: Peter Leef, Alan Moon (Moony), Phil Smart (Smarty), Lindsay Brook, Kevin Stanton and sound mixer Nick Hart, who was Alan’s partner.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
The Nomads, early-mid 1960s, with Alan Moon at rear left.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Father Time backstage at The Cabana Hotel 1973-74. L-R Don Martin, Lindsay Brook (both later of Mi-Sex), Steve Grant, Don Bedgegood, Alan Moon.
Sons and Lovers on the beach: Scratch Rhea, Kemp Tuirirangi, Peter Leef, Ali Matthews and Alan Moon.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Original members of BLERTA, their families (and some friends), Webb Street balcony, 16 October 1971. Adults, back row: Tony Littlejohn, (Simon Morris), unknown, Helen Whiteford, Kemp Tuirirangi, Bruno Lawrence. In front: (Peter Pharazyn), Pat Murphy, Veronica Lawrence, Corben Simpson, Geoff Murphy, unknown, (Peter Homewood), and Alan Moon. The children are Robin Murphy, Thad Lawrence, baby Luke Lawrence, Matthew Murphy, Veronique Lawrence, and Paul Murphy. 
Photo credit: The Dominion Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
BLERTA kids show at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth on the first North Island tour, 1972. Corben Simpson (vocals), Bruno Lawrence (drums), Alan Moon (Hammond organ), Beaver vocals and Chris Seresin keyboards.
Photo credit: Photo by Helen Whiteford
Alan Moon in Fragments of Time.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Quincy Conserve and Father Time flyer, mid-70s, His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Sons and Lovers, late 1960s (L-R): Scratch (Lyn) Rae, Alan (Moony) Moon, Kemp Tuirirangi, Ali Matthews, and Peter Leef. The bus - and Tuirirangi - would soon be inherited by BLERTA. 
Photo credit: Alan Moon collection
Sons & Lovers, live from the porch at Austin St, Wellington house, where they all lived. Alan Moon on keyboards.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Fragments of Time at Phil Smart's place, Hamilton, July 1977, with Alan Moon centre.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Alan Moon, Corben Simpson and Tony Littlejohn circa 1971
Father Time, left to right: Alan Moon, Steve Grant, Don Bedgegood in front with Don Martin and Lindsay Brook sitting behind.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
Father Time advertisement, Granny's, Hamilton.
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BLERTA bus.
Photo credit: Alan Moon Collection
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