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Could It Be Forever? My Story
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This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn’t include original photographic and illustrated material. In the seventies, when he was just 20 years old, David Cassidy achieved the sort of teen idol fame that is rarely seen. He was mobbed everywhere he went. His clothes were regularly ripped off by adoring fans. He sold records the world over. He was bigger than Elvis. And all thanks to a hit TV show called The Partridge Family. Now, in his own words, this is a brutally frank account of those mindblowing days of stardom in which being David Cassidy played second fiddle to being Keith Partridge. Including stories of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll that explode the myth of Cassidy as squeaky clean, it’s also the story of how to keep on living life and loving yourself when the fickle fans fall away.
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| Publisher | Headline (22 Nov. 2012) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 810 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 306 pages |
by SANDRA MOYES
Was a Cassidy fan in the 70s and clearly remember the hysteria at a concert in Glasgow in 74.
That kind of fame is fickle and never lasts and is probably for the best, as it clearly
Burnt David Cassidy out. He had his 4 or 5 years and then not so much after that.
His relationship with his father permeates through the whole book, and if life was not great his Father was the root cause never himself, yet he was clearly very like his Father egotistical and a alcoholic.
His fan club was as big as Elvis at one time yes, but he himself never. Never for a moment was he in the genre of Bowie or the Beatles.
Enjoyed the read but nothing really surprised me.
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by NativeBrit
I have read a number of biographies and autobiographies of 1960s and 1970 s pop artists and groups and continue to be staggered by the descriptions of the fraud on such a large scale which kept these young people ( working 18 hour days for months and years ) from their earnings. In most cases the record companies and media moguls made multiple times more cash than their contractees and the latter never received what was their due
Shame on them
About the book –
A lot about his father the actor Jack Cassidy with whom he had a difficult relationship and much less about his mother Evelyn Ward. It was surprising that Jack, who must have been aware of the physical danger of the mass fan hysteria, did not try more to protect his son from that and from the financial exploitation he must have suspected was going on. Parents are known to be jealous of their children’s success but it seems incredible all the same
David is honest in his summing up of the Cassidymania phenomenon. He was in the right place at the right time and his looks and striking singing voice caught the attention of a whole generation of teenage girls. David himself seems to suggest it could have been anyone but just happened to be him. That he gradually felt he lost his identity and became a manufactured image and was not even doing the type of music he wanted is easy to understand. The social isolation caused by not being able to go out or use any hotels except small back street ones, and not being able to trust anyone is also easy to understand.
It had all happened before e.g Walkermania which Scott Walker referred to as a living hell and Cassidy himself referred to this era as hell, except that he did enjoy performing.
What struck me is his obvious self belief in his low times and how he pulled himself up by his boot straps and eventually got his ( different) type of career going again. His natural talent must have triumphed
I especially liked the sections, every few pages, of contributions from people he had just been talking about. Democratic and balanced that the other persons view is given . It’s another example of the equal social code of American culture, especially Irish American culture
I also liked the extensive detailed index at the end which enables the reader to find any subject or person or event
This book was written I believe in around 2007 so was before things appeared to go wrong for him again from about 2010. I don’t recall anywhere a mention of an addiction to alcohol but that is obviously what happened, sadly leading to his demise
The final chapters describe a very contented and fulfilled David Cassidy. A bit too good to be true and could have been summed up as And They All Lived Happily Ever After. Real life of course isn’t like that although I hope it is partly true even though it sounds exaggerated
Alcoholism seems to have been a curse running through his family ( it had caused his father’s death indirectly) I read recently that it has a genetic component so it is sad that it affected David
On the plus side, he emphasises that his childhood experience of parental absence led him to be an especially loving and attentive father and husband
In addition he spent most of his life doing what he loved and not, like a lot of us do, what we have to to earn a living. So in that way a life well lived and rewards came late but at least they came to him
I recommend this book to anyone who needs reminding that life is cruel to everyone ( quote from Christine Keeler) and we all have to struggle no matter how wonderful someone else’s existence appears to be
by Beverley Nicholls
I’ve read this a couple of times and it’s a very candid and interesting book
by Saffron
I loved this book – it was so honest – it pulled no punches about the pit falls of fame and the roller coaster of stardom and then the plunge into depression and the fight to get back up there again. He takes us on that journey- through the Partridge Family days when he became a massive heart throb and got mobbed by teenage girls constantly- to the death of a young fan who was crushed to death at one of his concerts and the devastating affect that had on him. And then appearing partially naked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in order to show his edgier side and to try and cultivate a more adult audience. There is much in the book – it is so interesting on so many levels. I always thought of him as being a pretty, clean cut guy when I was a kid. He was part of my childhood. You were either into the Osmonds or David Cassidy – interestingly both American exports. I was more of an Osmonds fan – though I was very aware of David Cassidy. This book has opened me up to who he really was. It’s a unique insight. He was an amazing guy and I’m so sorry that he succumbed to alcoholism once more at the end of his life.
by Janet Coates
Liked it was very truthful about family life.
by Holly
I was never a huge David Cassidy fan, more The Osmond’s, but I grew up knowing the songs of both David and the Partridge Family TV show. I found the book to be open, honest, well written and very easy to read. The book contained quotations from everyone David knew and worked with, on and off stage within each chapter.
Reading the book made me feel happy and sad for him at the different stages of his life. I had no idea he felt the way he did about being a manufactured teeny bop idol with hundreds of thousands of screaming fans across the world. It was never what he wanted in life but he got sucked into a very scripted life and the people around David got very rich, leaving little for him in the early years. It was very revealing and David did not hold back.
I am so pleased I read this book. RIP David.