About Me
Early lifeCassidy was born at Flower Fifth Hospital in New York, New York, the son of Irish American actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward.CareerPrior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared on Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. When he started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself brought it up. He then took over the lead vocals for The Partridge Family recordings and quickly became a teen idol. He played Keith Partridge, son of Shirley Partridge, who was played by Shirley Jones, Cassidy's real-life stepmother.Ten albums by The Partridge Family and several solo albums were produced during the run of the show. At his peak, Cassidy was one of the world's highest paid live entertainers. Yet, out of the approximate USD $500 million that The Partridge Family made internationally, he was allegedly paid only $15,000. It was later claimed that Cassidy's fan club set the all-time record for the most paid-up members of any fan club at any one time. Cassidy's autobiography C'mon Get Happy: Fear And Loathing On The Partridge Family Bus (1994) provides a concise and honest account of most aspects of his pop fame, including contracts, money and his devoted female following.Rebelling against squeaky-clean Keith, Cassidy shocked his young fans by posing nude in the May 11, 1972 edition of Rolling Stone magazine, for Annie Leibovitz.At a show in London's White City Stadium on 26 May 1974, 650 fans were injured in a crush at the front of the stage. Thirty were taken to hospital, and one fan, 14 year-old Bernadette Whelan, died on 30 May from her injuries.[1] A shaken Cassidy later faced the press. The ill-fated show was the penultimate date on a world tour. By this point, Cassidy had already decided to quit both touring and acting in The Partridge Family. He released three critically well-received solo albums on RCA between 1975 and 1977, and also starred in an episode of Police Story, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Due to the success of the episode, NBC created a show based on it called David Cassidy: Man Under Cover - but it was not a hit, prompting cancellation after just one season.Cassidy has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including a version of Little Johnny Jones (played in the movies by James Cagney) and the original version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Time on London's West End and Blood Brothers opposite Petula Clark and half-brother Shaun Cassidy - among others. In 1996, he took over from Michael Crawford in the Las Vegas show, EFX, turning it around, with his complete re-write, into one of Las Vegas's favorite hit shows - although Cassidy quit after injuring his foot during a performance. He also created another show called The Rat Pack Is Back, in which he made guest appearances as Bobby Darin, and which ran very successfully. In 2000, he wrote and appeared in the Las Vegas show At The Copa, with Sheena Easton as both the young and old versions of the lead character.In January 2005, he visited the morning-show host for Chicago, Illinois oldies station WJMK-FM for a week, enjoying many entertaining call-in conversations with fans - one of whom won the chance to have lunch with Cassidy.Personal lifeCassidy's first wife was actress Kay Lenz, whom he married in 1977 and divorced in 1982. His second wife was South African sports-woman Meryl Tanz, whom he married in 1984. Cassidy married his third wife Sue Shifrin-Cassidy on March 30, 1991, with whom he has a son, Beau; he has a daughter, Katherine, from a previous relationship. As 'Katie Cassidy', Katherine had one CD-single, "I Think I Love You", released by Artemis Records on July 16, 2002 - the same song that was a #1 hit for her father in the fall of 1970.David Cassidy- The Story Of (Teenage Dream) part 1 of 4
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