David Cassidy Being Together

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yt-XSWeZlo&t=137s It was one moment during that crazy Sydney's concert  on a hot day in March (1974 World Tour) , when David  Cassidy took his guitar and wanted his audience to stop screaming and listen to him for a change..And he started singing 'Can't Go Home Again' , and talking with his fans..A great song and what a performance.. The song was released on 'Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes' album in October 1973. At the time I had no idea about it and I never heard about Kim Carnes till 1981 when she had a massive world hit with 'Bette Davis Eyes', number 1 on the Billboard chart for 9 weeks, she got a Grammy Award for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8 I loved the song and Kim's raspy voice and that video (amazing but it was often on our tv), I thought she looked so elegant and so different, so beautiful woman with such amazing blond hair.. It was many years later that I learned more about...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFoNwddrxQ                            I discovered that song just by a pure accident about 2 years ago. Wow , a song about David Cassidy and recorded by such young people. Called indie pop, this kind of music ( I've read), the song was released in February 2009, by three girls and one boy (on drums) from London and Cambridge. Such a happy, full of energy sound, I love that song. At first I didn't understand a word except  'David' , 'Cassidy', 'magic' and 'LOUD' , but it's not difficult to find lyrics in that Internet era... Amazing..Sure those young people had some old relations in love with David in the 70s..5000 photos of David..that was funny..but so true, so many hoped that even if Los Angeles was so far, far away , they would have found the way..somehow. Yes, it was like that. Great lyrics ,really has captured that mood, that collective dream..Sur...

David Cassidy : 'It's a piece of me - my whole life is in that album ,and all the dreams I've ever had. If people don't like it ,they don't like me'  This amazing , fabulous album was released in October 1973, produced by Rick Jarrard, #1 on the UK chart on November 24 (for one week), 13 weeks on charts. Singles - Daydreamer/ Puppy Song  #1 on the UK chart (for 3 weeks) 13 weeks on chart. Where to start writing about it, why it's still so special. It was the first own David Cassidy's album (the third solo one)  he sounded on it completely different than on TPF's albums from 1973. He made a few enemies because of that record. Larry Uttal had to pay Wes Farrell to let David have another producer - Rick Jarrard ,who worked with one of David's favourite artist (and a friend) Harry Nilsson. Rick let David choose songs and suggested only one himself. It was  'Daydreamer' written by Terry Dempsey (1941-2019). Thank you Rick, it was a great choic...

 This episode was aired on February 19th ,1971 (Season 1(21). Keith and his first car, buying it left him broke and in Danny's power. The car was a junk and Keith coudn't earn money for restoring it.Poor Keith , but at least his girl friend (19 year old Annette O'Toole) was understanding and cared for him, not for the car.Of course..Everybody laughed when Shirley told Keith : 'you know, if you keep up the hard work, you might owe your first million before you're 30!'..David earned much more.. And what's more when he was 17 had much better car than Keith. He got his driving licence when he was 16 and Evelyn , his mother, gave him her 1959 Oldsmobile convertible. I don't know if I would have done the same, such an impressive big car for a boy who loved adventures. No doubt David was happy, a great car to go to a drive -in movie with a girl or for a double date ,the car was big enough. In 1970 he had a 1968 blue Ford Mustang (like the one on the picture). H...

 In 1971 David Cassidy had the biggest fan club in the world, 200 000 members. In November that year, on every single day about 200 000 TPF records were sold , Tiger Beat circulation was 400 000 copies every month , and David received  weekly 25 000 letters . Letters , not emails...But does it mean that he was the most popular singer in the world? More popular than Elvis ot The Beatles? Of course not. David Cassidy was a superstar, number 1 teen idol, but there were a lot of people, also young and interested in music ,who had no idea about his existence, or worse , people for whom he was a manufactured pretty boy with no talent, a joke. So why his fan club was the biggest? In autumn of 1970, David Cassidy became an overnight sensation in the USA, from the start, from the first episodes of The Partridge Family, millions of girls were hooked just from the second they saw him and heard him sing. It was love at the first sight on a global scale..His fans were mostly girls, such fa...

 It was in the early spring of 2018. At the time fans were writing a lot on the DC Official website. Fans from all over the world, we were still in shock, trying to come to terms with this unbelievable fact that David Cassidy was gone forever, that there would never be new songs, that we missed the chance to see him in concert , to tell him..you know. We were writing/talking about what he meant for us, about his life and music. And (it was actually my stupid idea) we started making a list of our top 5 of The Partridge Family's songs...'Looking Through The Eyes Of Love', 'It's One Of Those Nights'.., but suddenly someone wrote : 'Hold on! I love all TPF songs!' Yes, so true, because even those not so very good, even them, after all those years they became classic and of course David made them special, his fabulous  young voice and his interpretations. 'I'm On My Way Back Home' definitely belongs to my top 5. A great song to sing along with Dav...

 I have a friend who says that she doesn't like watching films because actors always play themselves, it's not interesting. I don't know.I think that a really good actor could be himself and at the same time the character he plays..It's difficult to explain..but is it not  like David Cassidy playing Keith Partridge? Keith has a lot from David. Even the way he stands with his hands usually crossed in front of him ,as though he wants to fend off the world and defend himself. David did the same..And Keith , he is  not very smart of course , but he is so sensitive, so insecure and so lonely..Tracy has Chris, Danny has Punky and Gloria, Laurie has boy friends and girl friends..and Keith?..His girl friends come and go.. David Cassidy never really played a good , dramatic, really significant role in an important movie or tv series. In the 70s a lot was written that he was to play Paul Getty III, I heard  about a film with Goldie Hawn. He was offered a title role in a film v...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBc549rcF4  I have to admit, I'm on a mission, I talk and write about Tony Romeo a lot. Everywhere I could, I don't know if anyone is interested in him, but I don't care. It's so unfair that such a talented man is so completely forgotten and there is very little info on him. I've once read a blog, and the author confessed that he had a kind of obsession about Romeo too. That he was one of many, very talented artists who didn't achieve real success, didn't make it. David Cassidy wrote about Tony Romeo :'.he was one of the great lyrical and musical forces of the era- unique and very special. Through Wes (Farrell), Tony and I became friends.(..) Tony was romantic and he painted pictures with every line' (David Cassidy:'Could It Be Forever', 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38XsRcDmTFc So true..painted pictures..his songs are like short films, the slideshow . He wrote some of the most memorable David Cassidy...

 During his career David Cassidy played more than 600 concerts. The first one in Seattle on March 26th, 1971 , the last ever in New York, also in March, 4th, 2017. Three live albums were published - 'Cassidy Live!' (1974, Bell Records), 'David Cassidy : His Greatest Hits Live' ( 1986, Starblend Records), David Cassidy Live in Concert' (2008, Warner). We also have some audio recordings from the 70s , and videos of  his live performances on various tv programmes or concerts from every decade, we can watch and listen to them on You Tube. David Cassidy was a brilliant live performer, from the beginning. From that  very first concert, when he didn't know what to expect because  never before he was singing for such an audience - thousands of screaming girls.  'I needed have worried about whether the kids were going to like me. They were screaming- and in some cases fainting- before I got my first note out. I rushed through the show. Everything was going 150 miles ...

David Cassidy :' I always back away from labels (..) Man, don't call me a former teen idol. Don't call me a heartthrob. Don't call me a sex symbol. Tell me I'm bad, tell me I'm lousy. But don't call me that.' /Lyndsey Parker : David Cassidy Gets Happy. June 15, 1998. www.music.yahoo.com./   https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/David_Cassidy_Allan_Warren.jpg For many people (also for some fans ) David Cassidy means Keith Partridge and a teen idol. It was  hard for David, that whatever he did later in life as a singer, actor, music composer or producer , every time he appeared as a guest star, every tv or radio interview (and he made a lot of them) started with a fragment of 'I Think I Love You' or 'C'mon Get Happy' and such introduction - ...a former teen idol..unforgettable Keith..his posters...every girl's dream.' You must have really tough skin to endure something like that, decade after decade.It's such a...

 There is a stable near my house, and almost every day walking my dog I meet children riding ponies. We say 'hello' to each other and smile. The kids are so happy and proud and I go on thinking about this young boy, Billy, his brave pony Blaze, his dog , Rex and their creator Clarence William Anderson.(and David Cassidy of course) C.W. Anderson (1891-1971) dedicated his life to horses. He wrote 36 books on horses with his own illustrations, among them 11 books for children. His artwork, drawings, lithographs and engravings hung in many museums and galleries. He was a very known and respected judge of show-jumpers. A great figure in the horse world. He wrote his first book about Billy's adventures in 1936, and I'm sure David Cassidy read them when he was a kid. David started riding ponies when he was 7. 'I remember staying home with the mumps and seeing this racing movie 'The Homestretch'( the film from 1947 about rival thoroughbred horse breeders , author...

During my US trip in 2019 , I spent 2 days (and 2 nights) in Las Vegas. I left my group for a day, I wanted to explore the city on my own. It's nice to have a company, but I always prefer that way , in every city, alone and on foot.  I wanted to see MGM Hotel, the place where from November 1996 to December 1998, David Cassidy was the star of 'EFX'. At the time MGM Hotel&Casino was the world's biggest casino resort, and 'EFX' the world's biggest and the most expensive theatrical production. It's absolutely amazing that after 25 years from the time when he was the highest paid solo performer in the world, David Cassidy  achieved great success again.. on Broadway and  later in Las Vegas, where he was voted the Best All Around Performer and Best Singer. It's unbelievable how hard he worked for it. He'd agreed to take the job on the condition that he got creative control. The plot was rewritten and about half of the original songs were cut or repl...

 David Cassidy and animals...I can imagine a beautiful , big book, with glossy pics inside, David , young and old, with dogs, cats, kangaroos, whales, sea turtles , llamas , koalas and of course with horses. And in that book a lot of stories , like the one about 20 year old David Cassidy and his puppies. In late 1969 David Cassidy with his old school friend Sam Hyman,  rented a small house at Laurel Canyon in LA. They lived there (very happily) with two dogs. David's dog Sam (later called Ricky), and Sam's dog Hashish (later called Sheesh). When David became famous they moved to a bigger house in the Hollywood Hills.David and Sam were  very busy and it came as a big surprise for both of them ,when Sheesh had 5 puppies by Ricky. David was very worried, didn't know what to do with them, he absolutely had no time , and the rescue came from ...a teen mag. When Ann Moses, Tiger's Beat editor had heard about DC's problem, she organized a contest for the best names for tho...