David Cassidy (real name - David Bruce Cassidy) is an American actor, singer and guitarist. He was born on April 12, 1950.
Cassidy is perhaps best known for his role as Shirley Jones's oldest son, Keith Partridge, on the popular 1970s musical/situation comedy, “The Partridge Family” from 1970 to 1974. He subsequently went on to a successful pop career in the mid to late 70s, and still performs on stage on a regular basis.
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. It would be easy to completely underestimate Cassidy's worldwide popularity at the time. His record sales, while declining somewhat in the USA by 1972, were phenomenal everywhere else.
His recordings regularly topped the charts around the world with no 1 singles and albums in the UK, Europe, South Africa, Japan and Australia. His concerts were record setting sellouts playing to capacity crowds of thousands of hysterical teenagers in stadiums around the world including Wembley Stadium (6 sold out shows in one weekend), the Houston Astrodome (where he holds the seating record) and the MCG in Australia.
Since 2002, Cassidy has continued to record and has toured almost continuously around the world, packing in the fans in concert venues both large and intimate across the USA, UK and Australia.
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