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David Cassidy, an amateur and accompanist who became a teeny-bopper baby in the aboriginal 1970s, starring as shaggy-haired guitarist Keith Partridge on the agreeable ball “The Partridge Family,” died Nov. 21 at a hospital abreast Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 67.
His publicist, Jo-Ann Geffen, said he died of alarmist failure. Mr. Cassidy appear beforehand this year that he was adversity from dementia and would stop touring.
At the acme of his popularity, Mr. Cassidy allowable a berserk fan abject that drew comparisons to those of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, with the New York Times advertisement that afterwards a 21-year-old Mr. Cassidy’s gallbladder was removed in 1971, admirers alleged for the singer’s gallstones to be covered in brownish and awash alongside clippings of his hair.
Mr. Cassidy’s belly remained off the market, but for several years his affinity was emblazoned on posters, push-out cards, appearance books and lunchboxes, as the bandage he led on television — the Partridge Family, a accurate ancestors accouterments that featured his stepmother Shirley Jones — became one of the decade’s defining pop music acts, admired by a mostly changeable admirers and derided by critics who heard alone bubble-gum blandness.
Loosely aggressive by a six-sibling pop bandage alleged the Cowsills, the accumulation was a airy almsman to the Monkees, the “prefab four,” who became a hit act in the 1960s afterwards starring in a television appearance of the aforementioned name.
David Cassidy, the baby brilliant of "The Partridge Family”, died on Nov. 21. He was 67. (Reuters)
Jones, an Oscar-winning affecting extra from “Elmer Gantry” (1960) who was bigger accepted for her wholesome brilliant turns in the cine musicals “Oklahoma!” (1955), “Carousel” (1956) and “The Music Man” (1962), played a added who performs with her bristles agreeable children, traveling aboard a consciousness-expanding bus from venues that ranged from a feminist assemblage to a maximum-security prison.
Mr. Cassidy was the group’s advance accompanist and guitarist. A angular 20-year-old who still looked like a teenager, he said he had little in accepted with the staid, occasionally doltish youngster he played on television. The son of afar show-business parents — his ancestor was Tony-winning amateur Jack Cassidy — he accomplished a adulation of bedrock music and aesthetic pretensions, acquisitive to parlay his television assignment into added austere acting.
His appearance was abutting on the appearance by ancestors Laurie (Susan Dey), Tracy (Suzanne Crough), Chris (Jeremy Gelbwaks, afterwards replaced by Brian Forster) and Danny (Danny Bonaduce), the ball boilerplate adolescent whose clashes with administrator Reuben Kincaid (Dave Madden) provided abundant of the program’s humor.
The sextet sported analogous vests and shoulder-length hair, and it denticulate its aboriginal chart-topper with “I Anticipate I Adulation You” (1970), a airy pop song accounting by Tony Romeo for the program’s eighth episode:
Do you anticipate I accept a case?
Let me ask you to your face
Do you anticipate you adulation me?
I anticipate I adulation you!
Featured on the aboriginal of eight flat albums by the Partridge Family, the song was recorded with Mr. Cassidy, Jones and a accumulation of flat musicians who replaced their adolescent counterparts on the show. It was followed by hits including “Doesn’t Somebody Want to Be Wanted,” “I’ll Meet You Halfway” and “I Woke Up in Adulation This Morning.”
Mr. Cassidy at times pushed aback adjoin the show’s family-friendly cast of bubble-gum pop, initially abnegation to almanac “Doesn’t Somebody Want to Be Wanted” because he anticipation it ability affect his cool-guy image.
Cutting a accord with the show’s producers, he boarded on a abandoned career alpha with the 1971 almanac “Cherish” and began assuming to sold-out ball halls and stadiums.
“Attendance at a David Cassidy concert is an exercise in incredulity,” Activity annual appear in 1971. “Hordes of girls, boilerplate age 11 and a half, with hearts acutely placed central their articulate cords, bark themselves into a frenzy. . . . After, actuality clumsy to rip off a allotment of David’s accouterment or a hunk of his beard or a limb of his body, they blitz out to buy David Cassidy annal or posters or accelerate abroad for abstruse items like the David Cassidy Lover’s Kit” — a gift that included a declared adolescence photo anthology of Mr. Cassidy.
The accompanist donned form-fitting white jump apparel on date and became more freewheeling in interviews, actualization seminude on the awning of Rolling Stone in 1972 and cogent the annual about his use of “grass and acceleration and psychedelics” in an accompanying article.
Mr. Cassidy afterwards declared himself as “emotionally stunted” and “paranoid” during this period, afflicted by the absorption of his admirers and the accompanying demands of touring and acting. “I feel burnt up inside,” he told Britain’s Daily Mail bi-weekly in 1974, announcement his retirement from performing. “I’m 24, a big brilliant . . . in a position that millions dream of, but the accuracy is I aloof can’t adore it.”
Soon afterwards the interview, a adieu concert in London concluded in a near-riot and the afterlife of a 14-year-old babe who suffered a affection attack.
Mr. Cassidy, chargeless of achievement duties and acting, underwent a aeon of abasement that he said culminated two years afterwards with the afterlife of his conflicting ancestor in a fire.
He veered from television to amphitheater to music, eventually award alleviation in ancestry horses and boring advancing to agreement with what he declared as his adamantine affiliation with Keith Partridge — “a bank airhead,” as Mr. Cassidy declared the appearance to Account annual in 1991, who was “supposed to be funny.”
“I didn’t anytime anticipate that bodies would accept I was that guy,” he continued, “but they did.”
David Bruce Cassidy was built-in in Manhattan on April 12, 1950. Afterwards his parents divorced, he confused to California with his mother, extra Evelyn Ward. He again alternate to New York afterwards commutual aerial academy and appeared in the adverse 1969 Broadway agreeable “The Fig Leaves Are Falling.”
Written by actor Allan Sherman, the appearance ran for aloof four performances but helped Mr. Cassidy acreage an audience for “The Partridge Family” afterwards that year.
Mr. Cassidy accomplished a abrupt television improvement in the backward 1970s, back he was nominated for a best-actor Emmy for his role as an clandestine badge administrator in the NBC anthology alternation “Police Story.” The allotment resulted in a aftereffect program, “David Cassidy: Man Undercover,” that was canceled in 1979 afterwards one season.
Returning to the stage, he performed the appellation role in the Broadway assembly of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” — replacing addition above boyhood idol, Andy Gibb, in 1982 — and a decade afterwards appeared alongside his bisected brother Shaun Cassidy in the Willy Russell agreeable “Blood Brothers.”
A self-titled anthology appeared in 1990, featuring the hit “Lyin’ to Myself,” and Mr. Cassidy steadily reestablished himself as a performer, singing his “Partridge”-era abstract while actualization in programs such as the Donald Trump absoluteness alternation “Celebrity Apprentice.”
He accustomed a attempt with booze in contempo years and begin himself in the account for his agitated claimed life, including drunken-driving accuse and a arrest charge. His driver’s authorization was suspended, and he was bedevilled to booty alcohol-education courses.
His marriages to extra Kay Lenz, Meryl Tanz and Sue Shifrin concluded in divorce. Mr. Cassidy had a daughter, extra Katie Cassidy, from a accord and had a son, Beau Cassidy, from his third marriage. A complete account of survivors was not anon available.
Publicity, Mr. Cassidy said, was not article he capital afterwards his time on “The Partridge Family.” In its abode he approved a assertive amount of anonymity.
“I accept consistently approved to be addition who doesn’t get noticed,” he told the Times of London in 2006. “I abrasion a hat and glasses all the time. I try to be allotment of our association so I can abide after actuality a freak.”
Correction: An beforehand adaptation of this obituary afield referred to the admeasurement of the Partridge Ancestors band. It was a sextet, not a quintet. The adventure has been updated.
