That time David Cassidy posed nude

How scandalous was it considered at the time?

He was really humiliated by the Rolling Stone write up on him, I think he felt betrayed.

I'm guessing he didn't realize he couldn't go from teenage heartthrob to rock star.

The nude phot only showed a few wisps of pubes from what I recall.

He was hung like a donkey, according to his stepmom Shirley Jones in her memoirs. She said David inherited it from his father, Jack Cassidy, and that all three of her own sons by Jack were also well-endowed.

It's an interesting read from Mrs. Partridge.

I remember there was a major stir about his Rolling Stone cover, but he was still dismissed as a teeny bopper.

I think that it’s so disgusting for Shirley to have written about her sons’ penis sizes. Wildly inappropriate. As bad as Trump boasting about his daughter having a nice body and wanting to date her.

Maybe worse.

“No dong” was the only scandal.

It couldn't have been that controversial, I didn't even hear about it till the late 90s.

First of all Cassidy was over when the Partridge Family ended, probably before.

So no one cared, and there was a brief top 20 hit in the 80s but no one cared and since there was no Internet (as we now know), people never saw what he did and you had to make a huge effort to get a copy of that magazine, and no one could be bothered.

Few people knew and even less people cared.

R8 The Rolling Stone cover came out at the height of his popularity in 1972, two years before the Partridge Family ended. His popularity was phenomenal among teenage girls -- and quite a few gay boys too, I imagine. He would fill stadiums with thousands of screaming orgasmic fans. There was nothing like it since the Beatles toured America.

His singing career tanked shortly after the series ended. He tried but never could make the transition to adult star, although he had the talent and handsome if somewhat androgynous looks that aged quickly.

He finally drank himself to a slow death at 67.

Just wanted to point out the similarity between his body and Cindy Crawford's son, whom multiple DLers were claiming had some form of manorexia.

He was really thin but it looks natural. Crawfords son looks emaciated especially in the face.

He really was kind of a sad sack. Cassidy really thought that after the Partridge Family ended he would then become a big rock star. He really was delusional enough to think he could be another Robert Plant or Roger Daltrey. As if. Of course that never happened and he was bitter as hell about it for the rest of his life.

Wasn’t he under 5’6”?

That was the nice thing about Menudo. Management took care of reminding you of your expiration date. Oh, the fact that management was pederastic is inconsequential.

But at least the kids knew when they were over.

GROSS...THAT IS MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT .

That makes no sense R12. Crawford Junior has an angular face and more muscular abs.

Davy Jones should have posed nude too.

Why was Shirley looking at their meat? Did she want to suck em off?

Girly features. Bad hair. Too skinny. Meh face.

Is this what girls were creaming themselves over in the 70s?

His dad was in a few Bewitched episodes, and really pinged in those.

And I agree. Jones statements are fucking creepy.

His father Jack Cassidy died a gruesome death. He, like his son, was also an alcoholic and passed out drunk with a lit cigarette. The cigarette started a fire that torched Cassidy's apartment and almost torched the whole building. What was left of him was found near the front door, apparently trying to get out but he died from burns. The fire was so hot not much was left - his skull even exploded.

How come he got successful (for a few years) in Vegas in the late 90s? He had a show called FX and then At The Coppa with Sheena Easton.

Jack Cassidy was a fabulous sister.

I liked his Columbo episodes.

Shirley Jones sounded horny.

R23 He was riding boomer nostalgia. His Vegas show got good reviews, but it was enough to propel him to bigger things. I imagine his substance abuse contributed.

R19 Jones does mention her ex-husband's and sons' sizemeats in her autobio, but it's just in passing. She was trying to make a point about their great attraction to the ladies. Most of her memoir is about her own life, not her stepson or sons.

R21 Jack Cassidy was bisexual and got his big break on Broadway by being Cole Porter's lover in the 50s. Jack apparently was not a nice man, and there are stories of his sadistic abuse of wheelchair-bound Porter. Jones writes about his abuse to her as well.

^^ but it wasn't enough to propel him

Just watch The Partridge Family on Antenna TV at 12pm every day and you can see Shirley Jones didn't need to actually see David's penis to tell he was well hung. He always displayed a sizeable basket. He was apparently a boxer boy because he's always hanging quite low in his bell bottoms.

R18 Nude photo of Davy Jones? This one is close.

Just call him Sugar Tits.

That's some serious Cooper's Droop he had going on.

I bought David's bio at a library book sale for $1 today. So far it's worth the dollar.

Even this Rolling Stone Major-Pop-Star treatment of David Cassidy couldn't move his career from the Teen Idol category

And they couldn't make him look sexy either...

An actor I worked with once appeared with David and Shaun Cassidy as well as Petula Clark in "Blood Brothers". He loved Petulia, and I think he liked Shaun, but he thought David was a very difficult guy; if I recall correctly, he apparently still thought or acted like he was a teen idol and wanted to be treated/or was was upset if he wasn't treated as such.

R37 I saw that show in St. Louis. Show was okay, but Petula was great. Cassidy was good, too.

The documentary was very sad. Cassidy was obviously drunk but he claimed he stopped drinking. The scenes of him trying to sing in the studio were just cringe-worthy.

What was the documentary, r40? Was it a Netflix movie?

It's an A&E documentary called David Cassidy: The Last Session. It's OnDemand and Amazon Prime.

When the Partridge Family was filming at Kings Island, Keith and Danny were supposed to be filmed riding a coaster. However, David was afraid of the coaster, so they hired a young woman to be his body double. He was terribly scrawny.

If you look in the dictionary under baked ham there is a picture of Jack Cassidy.

I always thought Jack Cassidy was kind of hot. He played creepy/arrogant very well. Now that I've learned he was hung - it fits even better. I had a cousin that was hung very nicely. They were visiting and he had just bought a new light blue speedo, naturally he tried it on. I remember his mother saying "And you fill it out rather nicely too." I thought it was weird for her to make a comment like that. But he did look damn fine (he was a big, strapping, Norwegian boy - definitely in stud territory) so she was correct in her assessment. I guess she was just being a proud Mama?

I liked Shirley Jones but the rest of her family was creepy. She was pretty and had talent but always went for the losers.

Before I respond, I feel it necessary to hear Susan Dey’s response on this thread.

Jack would have had a terrible time dealing with Shaun’s turn at fame.

Thank you R46 for using this thread as an excuse to tell your creepy cousin incest story.

You're a class act.

Now back to reading VC Andrews with you.

His daughter reported his last words were, “ so much wasted time.”

R46 that’s a very CREEPY story. My suggestion stop fucking telling this story.

My goodness - sorry to offend. It just struck me as so weird at the time. It's not a story I go into with great frequency. In fact, I think this is the only time I've shared it.

It was the hippie early 70's. Nobody probably thought too much of it.

Shirley Jones wrote one of the worst books I've ever read. It showed her to be fairly stupid and gross and in very bad taste. Not only does she go on about her children's dick sizes, but has a long section about masterbation. Classless.

I loved The Partridge Family and had a huge crush on David. I wanted them to adopt me. I could play the triangle, I suppose.

I can still sing most of their songs, I played their albums so often.

[italic]The Partridge Family[/italic] is much more funnier than [italic]The Brady Bunch[/italic]. For one, TPF had more of a sarcastic and dark sense of humor and tons of adult innuendo. That one episode that parodied the [italic]The Graduate[/italic] for instance. None of the Brady kids were ever as funny as Danny. The Partridges seemed more with the times too, actually interacted with black people rather than just have them as tokens in the background like The Bradys did.

Very. My sister was 12, a rabid fan, and devastated.

I believe this photo inspired Gavin Rossdale to name his band 'Bush'.

Did Shirley Jones actually write that stuff? It's not uncommon for publishers to demand "more juice." She put her name to it, of course, so she's not above criticism.

Gavin Rossdale, who's his bf?

I, too, was surprised and a little disgusted by Shirley’s bio. She came off as weird. But she aged well and seems to be thriving so what do I know.

Her husband looks (looked) tacky. He probably put her up to it. Someone on another thread claimed that their friend who died of AIDS was stiffed by the Ingels-Jones over a portrait they commissioned from him.

He’s a hot twink to me. I love pretty boys with hairy legs. And he hardly looks anorexic, just average 70s thin.

I grew up in LA and the Partridge Family Bus was parked in the parking lot of some restaurant in the early 80's - I have forgotten the name. In HS, we dressed up in thrift-store 70's clothing and posed by the bus.

Meh, R46's story was no weirder than all the middle aged moms out there posting bikini or beefcake pictures of their good looking kids for Facebook or Instagram likes. Those kinds of parents are mostly just narcissistic types living vicariously through their good looking kids. It's as cringy af, but mostly harmless.

The posts are usually captioned "fun at the beach" or whatever, but they're pretty obviously pimping their kids for complimemts. Bonus points if someone says "you look like sisters" or "hot momma too!". I threw up just typing that. -R67

I think David did feel exploited from The Partridge Family and being associated with it. He wanted to be a serious musician. He was good-looking and sexy and knew it though and had no shame showing that off (like Robert Plant and Prince) but he still wanted his talent to shine through. I've listened to his solo stuff and he is really talented as an artist. His brother Shaun was a limited talent in comparison but his music wasn't too bad either, very nice 70s pop rock.

Where else on the internet are you going to get at David Cassidy thread in 2020. That's right, DL!

According to a woman who slept with him, his penis was long and skinny.

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