A True Superstar..

That was the title of the article that appeared in Record Mirror, on June 1st, 1974. Wrote by John Beattie. About DC White Stadium Concert. It started  - 'What a shame...Cassidy has gone..' 

While I was on holiday a lot of the Record Mirror's articles from 1974 and 1975 were posted on the website. Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991. Maybe not as famous as New Musical Express, but of course in the 70s I only heard about them, and had no chance to read .So, at last. I've been reading for a few days  and still  haven't finished. It's so.. just can't find words, so moving and touching. Those charts for example, British and American, many songs I remember so well. Great voices, so  many talented people. Truly, the 70 was an amazing decade. Maybe just one song, not exactly from 1975, but John Miles died on December 5th. It was also a great hit in Poland..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF6mk2Sq4yY

This is such a wonderful song, and each week brought something new and exciting and we thought it would be like that forever..us forever young and interested in music.

A lot was written about David Cassidy in Record Mirror. Interviews, reviews, info, letters from fans..

In 1974, his pics were often on the covers. Why DC wanted to quit, why he wanted to stop touring, his plans, and very detailed info on his schedule while  in the UK. One fan, 17 year old Louise wrote a letter that press articles  helped  build that tension, they were one of the reasons of the White City hysteria. This is a fragment of her letter published in  June :

'It's been 14 months since David appeared in concert in Britain, and to end his concerts here was a great choice for the superstar extraordinaire..The tension inside me had built up over a period of three months and near concert time it was about to explode. When I saw him I just went mad with hysteria..' 

 Let's see David as he was at the time, in conversation with Michael Barratt. London, May 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwBtL18y0U&t=159s

The Glasgow and White City concerts. The articles were written by Genny Hall and John Beattie. Those two were real journalists, I mean, they weren't prejudiced, they wanted to understand and first of all they wrote everything down. What they saw and what they heard too. And it's great, because now we can read those reports and draw our own conclusions.

David Cassidy's press conference in Glasgow. He was asked a lot of questions. About his middle name, Bruce. 'Does he have any Scottish connections?', 'Irish and English, I don't think any Scots, but who knows..'. 'What he thinks about hysteria?' , ' Eventually it's going to pass on, as all things do.' 'Are you going to miss touring?', 'I think I'll miss it.'. 'Are you disappointed that your show at Shawfield Stadium is far from being a sell out?'. David was surprised by that one..but he answered ' I'm here to play and if 5000, 500 people show up or whatever that's fine by me..' 'Anything about yourself that you really hate..?' 'Anything about other people that you don't like?' This time there wasn't a moment of hesitation - 'Dishonesty'.

David on the Yorkshire TV Music Show, May 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIrTJOLquU&t=20s

It's impossible to write about all those articles. There is a report from White Stadium. How he looked like, what he sang. About his RCA records. That 'I Write The Songs' actually was played a lot on FM radio in the USA (I didn't know about that). That in 1975 while in Hawaii he saw 'America' in concert and they invited him on stage - 'I did 'A Horse With No Name' with them and it was fun. I don't think half the audience even knew it was me.'. A lot about how recording a new album is a long and tiring process. About his house in Encino, that it was home, lived in and comfortable. That DC at home was much more relaxed and his animals were all the time with him (2 dogs and a cat). That he done a lot of rebuilding in the house himself..That he would like to appear in a real good movie.

I've also read several times  in different articles that he was gentle and friendly, had a sophisticated sense of humor not everybody understood, that he was very eloquent but very rarely said something really private..and that he was a born professional who always gave 100 % regardless of the circumstances. Like during that concert in Australia..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptksQHdDp4