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David Cassidy … Some Questions Answered

July 22, 2025

Some 30 years have passed since I ghost-wrote David Cassidy’s autobiography, “C’Mon Get Happy.” The book continues to sell, and I continue to get questions from David’s fans. If I so much as mention him on Facebook—perhaps offering a toast to his memory on his birthday—people will message me with inquiries. I tried to answer some of the questions I got with a lengthy article that I wrote for this publication five years ago, “David Cassidy: Behind the Scenes.” But I still continue to get all sorts of questions. [more]

DAVID CASSIDY… BEHIND THE SCENES

January 1, 2020

Some will tell me that David Cassidy was their first crush, back when he was starring on “The Partridge Family” on TV, recording regularly, and selling out huge concert stadiums. And they’ll write me how lucky I was to have been able to hang out with him, and how much fun he must have been. And maybe they’re remembering watching him on “The Partridge Family” on TV. And they’ll ask: “What was David Cassidy really like?” [more]

David Cassidy …. A Personal Remembrance

November 23, 2017

I'm sorry to note the passing of David Cassidy. And I want to share a few remembrances of him--as a performer and as a person. He was capable of conveying magic in his concerts--a "Peter Pan" figure, eternally young. On stage, he managed to seem--for decades--to be a kind of happy-go-lucky teenager. And he never got tired of having fans--whether gals or guys--tell him he'd been their first crush. [more]