Rolling Stone..Again

I've wanted to write about Andrew Gold a few days ago. He was born on August 2, 1951. Died in 2011, only 59. 

So often we write how underrated DC was, how multi talented, the same could be said about Andrew Gold, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. From a showbusiness family of course, btw. he said his childhood was wonderful. Oh yes, that was a great hit, also in Poland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBe-6EXBvaA

It's so moving, also that so many of those wonderful artists, who started their career at the end of the 60s and in the next decade wrote and recorded such great music, for me the best ever, they are not here any longer. Anyway David Cassidy knew Andrew Gold of course, it was a small world, everybody knew each other, in the early 80s Andrew was engaged to Nicolette Larson (the DC's co-star in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'), in the 90s he was helping with rewriting EFX. And Andrew Gold co-wrote with Sue Shifrin a very special song..

I've chosen this video, without the DC pics, because of the great comment someone has written.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DH3uGWICZw

So I've wanted to write about Andrew Gold, but suddenly I felt there was no use for it. Who cared about Andrew Gold or even 'River In Time'. About music.. Another emotional discussion about the DC's Rolling Stone's photographs was going on one of the FB groups. About the pic where he showed the most, and unfortunately this pic was coloured, probably to see more details of the naked David's body. Poor David, he is like one of those butterflies people once liked to pin and admire from time to time. Don't get me wrong, the Annie Leibovitz' photographs are great, David had an amazing body, and once when me and one of my English friends had nothing to do, we started to enlarge this photo, and we discovered that DC's eyes weren't completely closed, he had no clothes on and he wanted to know what was going on. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0hjhwKx5s

I think there are two problems, two stories. The first one is about why and how those pics were taken and their impact in the early 70s. And the second one is what we think about them now. 

It is not a common knowledge that already in November of 1971 David could have played Madison Square Garden and Ruth Aarons started negotiations with Rolling Stone about this article. She thought that both things should have been postponed, first of all she wanted his MSG concert to be a sellout, and maybe she already wanted those two events (the concert and the article) to happen at the same time. David wasn't the only one male superstar who posed nude at the time. In April 1972 Cosmopolitan's issue everybody could admire Burt Reynolds. But DC's fan base were young and very young girls and boys, and he himself looked ..not like Burt. I think (I didn't see those pics at the time), that I would have been confused, maybe even shocked. And for some fans that was too much.

David Cassidy on MTV special in 1992, discussing the article and the photographs 

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

After 51 years.. There was something about young DC, something so special that we still want to admire and talk about those pics. Is it good or bad? It's a free world, it's a choice how people want to remember him. 

For me the cover pic has been always the most interesting. It remainds me of the pics some Victorians liked taking in the 19th century. Innocence and sensuality. Peter Pan.. That pic is the most controversial in my opinion..

The pic - The David Cassidy Official Website