The Real David Cassidy

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Or looking for the real David..It's something we discuss with my friend B. quite often. How he kept changing during the years and how he hid behind new images. Once she even joked - 'He chose 'Enigma' (a record label) because the name of it'. It was something a lot of journalists tried to find out, who was David Cassidy?. In March 1972 Lillian Roxon wrote in an article called 'The Real David Cassidy' (SundayNews, March19,1972) :

'There are 2 David Cassidys. The public DC wears those rather jive fringed white suits because the kids love them. The real David Cassidy is a blue jeans man. The public David Cassidy is hell to interview. He's intensely aware that several million little girls read every word he says and take them very seriously. The private David Cassidy is also cautious, but a lot smarter..(..) I loved the concert at MSG. I loved his gentleness with the girls (..) but really there's that other David Cassidy there too..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTppP88xhhY

And it was like that through his whole career, with new images ..a blond pop star in the 80s, a mature rocker in the early 90s, a vulnerable, boyish star of 'Blood Brothers'.. An article from January21,2000, www.lasvegassun.com. : 'Having seen Cassidy here in EFX, as producer and performer in The Rat Pack Is Back and co-starring in his own-tailor made vehicle (At The Copa) we are not sure we've ever seen the real David Cassidy. Is his on -stage persona just a collection of well chosen derivatives?'

I've been thinking about those articles watching some fragments from the David Cassidy concert at The Bears Den, Niagara Falls, NY, June 21, 2013. Maybe I'm naive, but for me while singing for his fans, DC was always real. Just the way he really was. 

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/ConcertPages/2013June21_Lucio.html

And one more thing. Of course this is a free world, and we have a choice if we want to read something or listen to something, so I don't regret..but while listening to that podcast I thought to myself :' Thanks God I'm not a famous person and when I die my ex-boy friends, lovers or my ex-husband will not be tempted..poor David'

We say in Poland -  'Curiosity is the first step to hell..'


Comments

  1. Anonymous6/6/22, 3:35 AM

    Well done.It is only necessary to know the genuine David Cassidy if you are willing to accept him and willing to ‘now that not all that is written is the truth.People have an agenda and it is not always to inform.

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    1. Weronika6/6/22, 10:57 AM

      Of course, I'm a fan, and I respect his privacy, he told us a lot and I appreciate it, the rest is unimportant gossip.

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