David Cassidy Book:

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Editorial Review:

Could It Be Forever?: My Story Reviews:
Buyer Beware--This is the 15-Year-Old "C'Mon, Get Happy" With a Few Extra Pages!
2009-11-24 - This may look like a new David Cassidy book but it isn't--it's just a British reissue of the 15-year-old "C'Mon, Get Happy" with a couple dozens pages added near the end. It's just as bad as the original--with Cassidy's ego getting in the way of him truly opening up about himself (at one point near the end he claims he is the "only original American Idol left" now that Elvis and Ricki Nelson have died!).

The only good thing about the book are the quotes from his brothers, who show depth and insight. David keeps saying he wants to reveal the real him--and certainly feels the need to tell his sexual conquest stories--but the new pages near the end give very little new insight into him or what he has done the past 15 years. He slams his wives (including his apparent current wife) and even has something negative to say about his daughter (who tried to be a pop star before heading into acting). He comes across as not a very nice person.

So if you already read "C'Mon, Get Happy" there is no reason to pick this up. If you didn't read the original book, you'll come away from this disappointed in the man David Cassidy was and has become.

Same old story but a new cover
2009-03-17 - This is a reprint of a 10 year old book called, "C'mon Get Happy". Moderately interesting only for David Cassidy fanatics. Why try to pass off a decade old book as new? Trying to make an extra bunk no doubt. Oh, the book has been modified slightly and the sex toned down. it reads like a movie on the Lifetime channel. In fact, wasn't it a movie on Lifetime?

Cassidy is a whiny sort of character with few redeeming qualities. He when through his Partridge Family bank roll like it was water and ended up a drugged out has been. You know what they say, "The higher they climb..."

Couldn't put it down
2009-02-27 - The first concert I ever attended was a David Cassidy concert when I was 10 or 11 years old. I was too young then to understand the "big picture", but this book sure filled me in. It was honest, insightful and interesting. I have read lots of autobiographies, and I applaud Mr. Cassidy for being so candid and revealing. It cleared up a lot of myths I had heard over the years. I could not put it down...an easy, fun read for anyone who liked David Cassidy at any time in their life.

I Think I Hate Him and His Book
2009-01-30 - An open letter to David Cassidy,
Dude,
Yes, you WERE popular because A. You could sing. B. You were a good looking guy C. There is no C or D, E, F,,,,,etc, The PF was a mediocre show and you were a terrible actor. The Brady's were much funnier and more loved. In the case of PF--it was all about the music and your looks (and to some degree the comic talents of a ten year old red head).

I don't care how many more members were in your fan club than in Elvis's--you ain't and never were Elvis, or the Beatles or Stones, or Elton or Rod....you are a tiny footnote in music history--you were a pop idol with one talent (singing)--nothing wrong with that but you really seem to think you were something more... and you ruin your singing talent now as you don't sing as much as you over emote --your ego comes through every note so it's unlistenable.

You may have quit the life shortly after you peaked but newsflash: Your five minutes were up anyway--teens grow up. Intelligent teen idols (see your half brother for a great example) move on, do something else and make a life for themselves. They don't rip off their former fans by repackaging a book they already bought and telling them it's new. You are a fraud, which is kind of sad. Lord knows I STILL love most of those PF CDs as well as your first 3 solo CDs(95% of which were written by others), but after that, it gets pretty sad.

For the love of GOD--GET A SENSE OF HUMOR and stop taking your "career" so seriously. And don't ever rip off your remaining fans again. You really come acress as egomanic who just needs to get over himself.

Best Wishes
Shaun

Profound Impact / Never Fallen Off The Bus
2009-01-02 - Having a hip surgery and knowing I'd have some down time, I decided I'd pick up David's "memoir." I was 11 when those Partridges first hit the airwaves in the fall on 1970. My musical tastes have matured since those days but my very first album was "The Partridge Family Album." The Book: Well written and compelling, David gives plenty of background on his life prior to Partridge fame. Then he describes all the wonderful details of what it's like going from a barely known to the biggest thing since Elvis or The Beatles. I felt what it was like to go on stage in front of thousands of adoring, screaming fans. And what it was like to have ones privacy completely obliterated, to be a spent and exhausted "working machine." What I didn't expect was to find out what a caring, concerned and conscientious person David was even in the face of a head wind of fame, demanding schedules and all other pressures. What a ride! Way to hang on David. And thanks for the book.