'Didn't You Used To Be..David Cassidy ?'

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That was what the title meant for DC, he said it during this interview

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/InsideWord.html 

Yes, I've stuck with this record, and that moment in the David Cssidy's life. He was at the crossroads. 'Lyin To Myself ' was a hit, in the top 30, and his rock album was on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks, but it wasn't a return he was dreaming about. Of course DC looked gorgeous, boyish, his eyes and smile..you know, but sometimes watching the videos from 1992 and 1993 I have an impression that he was a little bit..bored, tired maybe, of that  'rocker' look. He was always the best when he was just himself. David Cassidy, someone bigger and better than any image he played.

This is a fragment of the MTV Special from November 1992, on the 'Rolling Stone' mag 25th anniversary. Besides David we can see in it also Jan Wenner, Robin Green and Annie Leibovitz, who looks like the only one person involved in making that famous article who understands and cares for David. 

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/1992Nov18_RollingStone25.html

There are some interviews from 1992 during which David was asked about the kind of music he really wanted to play or what direction his career should have take..- "The songs on Cassidy's new disc mark a departure from the rock signatures of 1990's 'David Cassidy'. (..) Cassidy concedes that his new easy-listening direction was mapped out by the marketing department of Scotti Bros.  - (The label) said, 'We think you should make this kind of record.'. Perhaps the soft rock-stylings of 'Didn't..' will hold sway on adult contemporary radio, which is fine with Cassidy, who at 42 is getting a little old to target the babysitter set.' (Jonathan Valania :" Don't Ask DC, 'Didn't You Use To Be..?", The Morning Call, August29, 1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-gy6P5Kfg

And wherever he went, whatever he did ..people didn't let him forget. When he did radio interview before the concert at the Iowa State Fair (during the tour supporting the Beach Boys) - 'As a sign of her affection for DC, Barb Fenton took time off from work (..) and made an on-air confession - 'I was 13. He was 20. We were going to get married. He just didn't know that.' 

David signed the photograph for Barb - 'Sorry I missed you at the altar.'

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