Sound Magazine

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I'm a little disappointed after my yesterday's blog about the Music Walk of Fame in London. So much work, some talking first with Sharron, the first draft wasn't good, I was carried away a little bit and wrote a kind of fairy tale about David (funny really), later  gathering all that info, writing again and it wasn't easy, and the result -  just 2 persons more who signed the petition..I'm sure there are more David's fans than 666..Or maybe others don't believe he will ever get such recognition..

And of course there are fans who don't understand why  DC should be remembered. I know such fans, English ones. :

 'It was half a century ago..In the 70s you weren't interested in music played in the 20s Weronika, and now you want people start listening to DC again?'

'I know there will not be new fans, but he should be more known, more appreciated  I don't like when people say  : 'David Cassidy? First heard'. Or even worse  - 'David Cassidy? This pretty boy from the 70s? Long hair and pukka shells? My grandmother loved him' . But people heard about ..for example Donny O. or Rod Stewart'.

'Oooo Rod, sure everybody heard about him. But Rod  been performing for so many years, and he had so many hits (and wives)'. We had a lot of such conversations in May, when I was in the UK.

And I'd love people appreciate not only David Cassidy, a singer and a performer, and his solo work, but also TPF's music. The real, wonderful musicians who recorded those fabulous songs with DC. 'Sound Magazine' for example, it's one of the best pop albums from the first part of the 70s. And can you find it on any list of the best albums of that era. NO. I know, I've checked. And I've checked the bestselling albums of 1970, 1971 and 1972 too. The highest was The Partridge Family Album, number 104 with more than 500 000 sold copies..Time for some music. From Sound Magazine, how difficult to choose just one song, I love all of them,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1cfYEviQVE

and a  cover of that song, the author of it wrote : 'as simple as this song is, I think it's a great testament to the ability of David Cassidy's engaging performance to transcended it's simplicity..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2h3r3mxVY


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