The Importance of Writing About David

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Not a very original title, I know (copyright Oscar Wilde), but somehow it's popped in my head while walking on a beach. I'm in Sopot, at the Polish seaside, just for 3 days break. 

It's because of painfully small number of 'likes' the last new footage posted on the website has got. Less than 500 after 6 days. And it's truly sensational, David Cassidy going to Manchester to play his last concert in the 70s.

Maybe a song..

https://youtu.be/QtNW8h6gPjA?si=9b87n4X9rOxdq500

And I remember how a few years ago a DC Bravo poster got 4k 'likes' and who knows how many comments. Sure I know that soon will be the 7th painful anniversary and we, David's fans, are in our 60s now (mostly), and it's difficult to keep this flame burning without new songs, new interviews and new pics. But from time to time something new appears and it's when we really can realise how many of us left, at least on social media.

https://youtu.be/_Ad-cFYEJJ4?si=bDvNrmRnXmihPxKe

My close English friends met on The David Cassidy Official Website stopped writing about David a few years ago. We have a WhatsApp group, we write every day, and sure they know I still write my blog, but they treat it  as my rather strange hobby. For them David is a closed chapter. And I think that we need DC even more now. David as he was in the last decade of his life, struggling and fighting. And his music. From every decade of his career. Those precious and timeless songs of love.

https://youtu.be/39g1m9Wkt1I?si=N4VFPn-MW5JdPj6Y

David Cassidy was singing about love the whole life. He is pigeonholed as a singer of young, puppy love, but it's not true. He was singing about love to the end. And we still can learn from him.

https://youtu.be/2TfkH3wgA7g?si=KcOq79nsIcVcK3qA


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