David Cassidy Being Together

I'm going to London soon, again. Not exactly looking for David Cassidy of course, but yes, walking in his footsteps, London is full of places connected with him, and I haven't completely forgotten about my old dream of writing a tour guide, 'David Cassidy in London'. Maybe one day. This time I want to start with visiting BBC Broadcasting House situated at Portland Place in Merylebone (nearest tube station is Oxford Circus). I was outside this amazing building a few years ago, and it's time for the second visit to take some better photographs and to see at least a reception area.  The original  building (it was renovated in 2003) is a grade II listed building, the first broadcast from it was made in 1932. There is something magical about the main building made in Art Deco style, and when I saw it for the first time in 2019, it remainded me of the Tower of Babel, I mean how people imagined it. Really, Broadcasting House is something very special, even in London. David

I haven't planned to write about ITILY again, even that this week, 55 years ago, the single with Tony Romeo's classic, entered the US chart and started its way up, to the top. Number 1 for 3 weeks, sold 5 millions copies, a great hit in America, but not in Europe.  I never heard this song played on our Polish radio, and truly speaking I first heard ITILY in 1998 while watching BBC doc 'David Cassidy Teenage Dream'. Btw I've watched it recently again, what a great documentary, really wonderful. When I watched it for the first time in 1998, the footage and the music just made me speechless, and so unhappy that I didn't have a chance to experience Cassidymania. To have posters, to see David in concert. The fragment with ITILY started in the fifth minute of this film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Bhe2vK5SY David didn't perforn ITILY in the 70s, his concert opener was 'I Can Feel Your Heartbeat', he sang other Partridge Family hits, 'I Woke Up In

Life is unpredictible and today we've learnt that 'David Cassidy rights acquired by Iconoclast'. Before I write what I think about it, let's listen to one of the songs not written by David himself, but performed by him live. Only once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZFHa3QOvkI First of all we should stay calm because 1. we know nothing really, 2. it happened in the past that we became too much agitated about something, or as it was with The California Music Hall of Fame our expectations had nothing to do with the reality (if I can put it this way).  On the other hand when A&E Network announced they were working on 'David Cassidy : The Last Session' a lot of fans were against it from the start, and even some wrote letters to A&E, protesting and demanding that the project should be stopped. Also me. When it was premiered and I could see it at last, I changed my mind. Sure I understand that a lot of fans don't want to see it and it's bad that in d

The Story of Pop was a 26- part documentary broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (September 1973-March 1974), and also was published a printed version of the series. An article on David was in Part 6. I have my own copy of it, and we have it on the website too. This is the link to it. https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Book_StoryOfPop.pdf Truly speaking I've forgotten about it for quite a lot of time, but while searching for the right title on today's blog, I've remembered one sentence from that article, (btw I wish I knew the author's name) something about DC being a personality not someone who performed a specific kind of music, or something like that. So I've found the article and read it one more time. And I really like it. Maybe a song first. October is 'Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes' month. The album, so special for DC was released in October 51 years ago. There is something autumnal in this album, in the lyrics, the motif of passing is pr

From 'One True Love' written by David Cassidy and Sue Shiffrin, from David's album 'Didn't You Used To Be'. released in 1992. I've been listening to this album a lot recently, somehow perfect music for this part of the year, another summer has gone, and we all are a little bit older. This is really puzzling, strange even, how this album is sad. After all, in 1992, David was still young, again successful, maybe not on the scale he dreamed about, but nevertheless. He was in a happy relationship, had a baby son, but 'Didn't You Used To Be' is very melancholic. The leitmotive is lost love and dealing with it. 'I stare into the face of despair' in 'Soul Kiss'. Even 'Somebody To Love' or 'Treat Me Like You Used To' are not happy songs either (if I can put it this way) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9k9KA3ceTQ Wonderful song and I'm so happy that fans still make new tribute videos. We all need and appreciate them. D

From 'Casablanca', David Cassidy's favourite film. Somehow this song started playing in my head yesterday while I was watching a British TV series, 'Thriller', a very old one, from the early 70s. In many episodes of 'Thriller' there were American guest stars, and in the one I saw yesterday, first aired in 1974, George Chakiris. He was very good on it and surprisingly looking much better and younger than on The Partridge Family. Less makeup I think.  George Chakiris is a remarkable man, he was one of the dancers in Marilyn Monroe's classic number 'Diamonds Are a Best Girl's Friend' (1953), he got an Academy Award for 'West Side Story' in 1961 (and it was Shirley Jones who gave him an Oscar), he is a jewelery designer and has own brand. And he is 92 years old.  And while watching George Chakiris in this very English crime story, I was thinking why David Cassidy never appeared on any English TV series in the 70s. Yes, I know that in 1974