Having only been a kid at the time I only really have vague memories of the Partridge Family TV show or his songs. The only real memory I have of him is when I would have been 10yrs old. My Mum and Dad had taken my sister and I to London to go on HMS Belfast. Whilst on board there was a bit of commotion on the opposite bank, loads of teenage girls screaming towards a boat moored just away from the embankment. I caught a brief glimpse of David Cassidy on board and remember seeing a teenage girl jumping into the Thames in an attempt to swim to the boat.
I found this photo on Google which would have been taken that day.
Some years later, when I was an apprentice, I started dating a girl, she had a sister who around 7yrs older than me. She had been a big David Cassidy fan and she told us how she had gone to London with a couple of friends, knowing David Cassidy would be there on a boat on the Thames. You're probably way ahead of me and know what's coming, she told us she jumped into the Thames in an attempt to swim to the boat.
RIP David.