Pretty Young Man

David Cassidy was the son of actors. During the teen idol phase of his career in the early 1970s on The Partridge Family he was a pop star who played a pop star.

But he hated the Partridge Family scripts and music, and unlike his Keith Partridge character, Cassidy had actually been raised in the 1960s, had been to Haight-Ashbury, and had smoked marijuana, and done mescaline, speed, LSD and heroin. Musically, he preferred rock’n'roll that had something to say over the saccharine sound of the Partridges.

Originally posted 2010-11-04 20:42:38.