David Cassidy Being Together

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...

  Not a very catchy title, more like a manual not a blog about someone so charismatic and exciting as DC was. Of course for people who everyday use the website and the info gathered there, everything is very easy, especially since Jane changed the main page a few years ago.  I have my share in it, because when she asked for my opinion, I said that first of all the access to the 'In Print' section should have been much easier. And it is now.  But maybe first a song. From 'Gettin' It In The Street' album, David Cassidy's version is amazing, the 'original cover', he made a new song out of a Harry Nilsson's rather average number, David's is soulful and full of passion. So exciting..and his voice is pure magic. The Story of Rock and Roll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SchoM1IdOrc So how to find articles on the Official Website of David Cassidy. Our starting point is a homepage, the first page the visitors see when they click and open the website, an...