'Dear David Cassidy'

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Great updates on the Website a few days ago, new items for the cathegory called "In Print. Non-fiction books featuring David Cassidy". There are books written by DC, and by others, about David Cassidy, or those in which he is mentioned. There are the most of the latter, quite a long list and it's always exciting when new items appear.

Let's start with a song. This live version of 'Get It Up For Love' from 1985, is simply sensational, David in a great vocal form and great shape, so full of energy and just pure joy that he could make his fans happy again. Give and take. Of course he was still so young. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dc0hqIU-Vs&list=RD-dc0hqIU-Vs&start_radio=1

I want to write about 2 books. The first one  is 'George Michael - The Life 1963 - 2016  : The Man, The Legend, The Music', published in 2017, and written by Emily Herbert. I have no idea how old is she but it looks like she has written a lot of known people's biographies. 

She has the facts right, George Michael's backing vocals on The Last Kiss and the interview for Ritz magazine. Of course she is not interested in David himself, only in connection with George. She even thinks that it was 'curious choice' for George Michael working  with a former heartthrob from the past, whose the best song was 'I Think I Love You'. She doesn't understand why George called David  "a major career influence". Of course we know that David Cassidy was a very important influence for many young British artists popular in the 80s. In the 70s they wanted to be like him. Not so difficult to understand.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Book_GeorgeMichaelTheLife.pdf

The second book is written by wonderful, one and only Dawn French. It's great she was one of us, a fellow fan. She wrote her biography through letters, and one of them was to David. It's hilarious, witty and very, very moving. She wrote it for her book, around 2007, but she rememberd her young self so well, and her love for David with tenderness and understanding. Reading it made me smile, laugh even, but it also moved me a few times. 'Dear David Cassidy,.. (..) I don't fancy you, I know you. My soul knows your soul even though there's a crater of nothingness between us." Exactly. 

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Book_DearFatty.pdf

Dawn French has finished her letter with this : "Could It Be Forever?' Oh yes, my love, it could, is my answer. My heart is yours, have courage.'.

Maybe he should have married one of us.. (Me, of course).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha4Ttn2RjzY&list=RDHa4Ttn2RjzY&start_radio=1

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