David Cassidy, Heartthrob and ‘Partridge Family’ Star, Dies at 67<br />Reviewing the 1972 concert at Madison Square Garden, held on a Saturday afternoon, Don Heckman wrote in<br />that the show “was less a musical event than a love feast, less a concert than a symbolic announcement of what pop music might become.”<br />“The focus of it all,” he added, “was David Cassidy, singer<br />and star of television’s ‘The Partridge Family’ and the current idol of almost every 13‐year‐old girl in America.”<br />Referring to the fans in the audience, Mr. Heckman added, “I suspect<br />that their affection had more to say about the manipulative powers of television and recordings than it did about David Cassidy.”<br />After “The Partridge Family” ended, Mr. Cassidy pursued an on-and-off acting and music career.<br />David Cassidy, the actor, singer and teen heartthrob best known as the band member with the green eyes<br />and the feathered haircut on “The Partridge Family,” the 1970s television show about a family band, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<br />His publicist, Jo-Ann Geffen, said the cause was liver failure.<br />According to an online biography of the Partridge Family by Ed Hogan, Mr. Cassidy<br />and his co-star and real-life stepmother, the Academy Award-winning actress Shirley Jones, were the only cast members on the television show heard on the group’s records — Mr. Cassidy as a lead vocalist and Ms. Jones on background vocals.<br />Mr. Cassidy rose to fame on “The Partridge Family” playing Keith Partridge, the eldest of five children in a family<br />that forms a band and goes on tour in a multicolored bus.
