David Cassidy Being Together

  I've done some really unexpected things because of David Cassidy, since 2017. Like going to California in 2019 (and Nevada, Utah and Arizona), hiking in Wiltshire (it could be exciting, believe me) or starting writing my blog (which was a marvel in itself), but fast upcoming trip to New York City and West Orange in July 2025 suprass everything I've ever dreamt about and done. But you know, 'Dreams Are Nuthin' More than Wishes'.. https://youtu.be/9ZBBMTrjSig?si=wUhn3hlOxsqzOTPe There are a lot of against for going, some very serious ones, but also very strong for, only 2 in fact, but it's been enough for me to decide. The first one is Mary Anthony, a fellow American fan, who's become more than just a name, so meeting her in person, spend some time together is a great opportunity to experience something special. To be there with a friend who patiently answers any stupid question asked by me, and who is a devoted David's fan herself. The second and even m...

It's going to be rather serious, and hopefully not too personal, but upcoming birthdays, mine and DC's, have made me think about the impact he had on our lives. I'll be 63, and one week later David Cassidy would have been 75. He was always 12 years older than me, and now I'm watching his videos when he was the same age as me now. https://youtu.be/Wmzks_GNNUE?si=7JWNVjtP3ADZdkWc He still was looking all right at 63. But it was different David as he used to be in his 50s..He had a lot of problems, personal and with money again, a lot of health issues, but like always the exciting and wonderful performer, in a league of his own. We've got so much from him. His music first of all, we listen to all his songs all over again, we watch his concerts footage, and the videos of his TV appearances as a guest star. And everything he ever done. He still makes us happy.  https://youtu.be/LphhCMAbrC4?si=mXoDNBYG5-GgNoAl We know all the lyrics too.. And there are also things we'...

Or maybe Paul Anka with a little help of Wes Farrell. Anyway, yesterday it was 52 years since the premiere of the series' episode called 'Diary Of a Mad Millionaire', in which David Cassidy performed that song. Maybe not the best of The Partridge Family's episode, but very memorable because of the music numbers.  The first one is just a fragment, but how I love this charming song written by Terry Cashman and Tommy West. From Crossword Puzzle album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_1z_5EOWPc It's worth to add that John Astin who played that title millionaire, will be 95 years old on March 30, and until  his retirement in 2021, he was director of the Theater Arts an Studies Department and Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University (btw he graduated from it in 1952). What a man!  The second song was 'One Night Stand'. A wonderful song from the Partridge Family best album, 'Sound Magazine', released in August 1971. It took a while for th...

That fragment is from December 2001, "I was never uncomfortable wth the fact that it (The Partridge Family) had tremendous impact and was so successful. I just didn't want to be a nostalgia act. I wanted to go on and have a present." It's a kind of litemotive of many DC's interviews. When 'The Last Kiss' was released in February 1985, he said, "My great fear was that I'd end up doing a pathetic golden oldies tour if I stayed in the business." And exactly on this day, in 2013, DC played a concert called, 'David Cassidy presents The World's Greatest Teen Idols,' With Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz. All the songs performed that night were the hits from the 60s and 70s (with one exception - 'Rock This Town'. Yes, it was nostalgia, but this exciting concert wasn't a pathetic one, even that the audience knew every single song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3t1Vwo8qho Three amazing performers singing a timeless  pop masterp...

  But first something which has made me realise (again), that whatever we do and write about DC's legacy, and regardless what David Cassidy achieved and how wonderful singer he was (in every decade of his career), he is stuck in this one moment of time, to the end of the world. Forever Keith Partridge and a teen idol. DC wanted to live in the present. We can read this in his books and in countless interviews. He wrote about the years when he was a global star, "I am still amazed by it, awed by it, and often proud of it. Have been questioned endlessly for over thirty years about my life and career. However, I simply wish to live in the now. Fortunately for me, I have a great now. Now is where my happiness lives. But, man, did it take me a long time to get over that hump.' (David Cassidy, ' Could It Be Forever? , 2007, p.X. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZFHa3QOvkI And 2 days ago, instead a new update, on the FB page of The Official Website of David Cassidy, appeared a...

or about the danger of publishing fake photos. I thought about that song yesterday when I saw a new, amazing, fascinating pic published on one of our DC groups. David Cassidy in 1976, on stage, playing the guitar, a rock star in action, Eric Carmen (also on this stage) looking at him in amazment. So let's start with Rock Me Baby. In 1974 the last David's concert number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqEYCEUAEM Yes, for the rest of the world Davd Cassidy, especially in the 70s, was a teen idol, a pop singer for little girls, but the world was wrong. DC was an amazing live performer, and he knew it. He wrote such a song himself, in 1975. 'When I'm a Rock'n'Roll Star'. And such a star we can see on this amazing photograph from 1976.  But after the loud 'WOW!' I let out after seeing the photo, I thought to myself, 'Hold On! Maybe it's another fake pic and I again don't understand the joke'. Because recently 2 fake DC's pics have be...