The Last Session

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It's because of Lynne's game show, but it's always like that, one thing leads to another, and yesterday while searching for that link, I read some of our old conversations and discussions on the David Cassidy Official Website.

It's amazing that everything is still there..and for 2 years after November21, 2917, we fans wrote a lot, hundreds of comments. We wrote about our misery, sadness, our pain..later about how to keep DC's legacy alive, and yesterday I also read very carefully our very agitaded discussion about ..'The Last Session'. It started long ago before anyone saw the doc or knew any details. Some fans were against, there was a campaign of writing protest emails, we were afraid..Of course Jane had to remove some posts..but not many and it's good. Those comments from 2017, 2018, 2019 are the testimony how fans dealt with David's death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYpNhu9GmUM

I wrote a blog about 'The Last Session' in June last year..This is a fragment :

'The day came and 'The Last Session' was aired on June 11th..In the US. So fans from other continents could only read about it. That it was very emotional, difficult to watch, good, even if too much  concentrated on the DC's demons. I  wanted to see it so badly and it was so unfair that I couldn't. But I had great friends and I got my copy in London, on November 21st, 2018, on  the first anniversary.

It was my craziest trip ever. Everything started when in September 2018 I discovered that very cheap air tickets from Warsaw to London were for the November21st, with the return ticket the same day,  in total it was about $50..Within 5 minutes me and my 5 English fellow fans decided we would meet on that day in London, outside The Phoenix Theatre, at 10a.m..Only one of them lives in London, so it was a great and difficult journey not only for me.The most tiring and expensive was for my friend who lives in and around Manchester.

It was one of the most amazing, magical and stressful day in my life. We saw the plaque (The Phoenix Theatre), we were at St. Giles, met Sharron and Pauline from the DC Great Britain Group, and Doreen who became a close friend. We went for lunch and later had some drinks at Montagu Pyke pub, and we were talking  non stop about everything, not only David..When I was to leave, I got a small package. It was 'The Last Session'..One piece of advice - never, and I repeat NEVER, count that National Express airport transfer would be on time..It took me nearly 4 hours to get to Luton. I arrived there just 40 minutes before my plane's take off . I was sure I would have to spend the night at the airport. It was like in a movie, running and shouting..and I managed. I was desperate to be at home and watch the doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YAc0lwMy8&list=OLAK5uy_kurPojVFG_A2soIUBWNMn02z3FfbJQpQA&index=5

So at last at home, and it was nearly midnight, I started watching.. I didn't want to cry..but how I cried, big, bitter tears....Of course it would have been great if more was said about DC's career after the 70s, about the impact he had, and I wasn't happy to see Robin Green in it, but David was a pop icon and it was a doc about the price he paid for it. It was great that the film was interesting not only for fans, but also for people who had no idea who David Cassidy was..

'The Last Session' is a great doc. Hard to watch, but also a must watch. I believe that David Cassidy wanted it this way. It was, together with his EP, the last gift we got from him. His farewell present, his saying good bye..

We wish you were here..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eV8n-LtQY&list=OLAK5uy_kurPojVFG_A2soIUBWNMn02z3FfbJQpQA&index=3


 

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