David Cassidy - mentioned in many novels!
The following is a list of novels that have mentioned David Cassidy, an important icon of the 1970's onwards:
Dana Spiotta: "Eat the Document"
Josh picked up a reissue of the Silver Surfer comic book from a table piled with puka-shell necklaces just like David Cassidy used to wear in the '70s. He walked past the selection of graphic novellas to Miranda, who was looking at an earth-art display. A huge poster of Smithson's Spiral Jetty hung overhead, and underneath were books on contemporary environmental art and land art of the '70s. There was a DVD on Andrew Goldsworthy, and leaf-patterned bike messenger bags as well as vintage Greenpeace buttons and some vinyl Jackson Browne records in plastic sleeves."
Jane Moore: "Fourplay"
"Point taken," said Jo, gathering up an armful of clothes and stuffing them into a trash bag. She knew Rosie was right, but her natural urge was to hoard objects from her past as if they were the very glue that held her life together. She had every letter and postcard ever written to her, every school report, and clothes dating back to the heyday of David Cassidy. No wonder minimalism isn't my design specialty, she thought as she watched Rosie shriek with laughter at the discovery of a frayed Doctor Who-style scarf."
Gayle Brandeis: "Self Storage"
I put her 2T shorts and sippy cup and paper towel rack and Christmas plate and David Cassidy eight-track into a wrinkled plastic bag from Stater Brothers. "If I told you," I said, "I'd have to kill you.""
Suzanne Brockmann: "Gone Too Far"
He looked exhausted. His clothes were rumpled and looked slept in, and, with his hat off, she could see that his hair really was as long and shaggy as she'd thought. Thick and brown, it was sun streaked and wavy as it touched his shoulders. It was faintly reminiscent of the style so beloved by teeny-boppers in the early 1970s. He looked like he might've been trying to pass as David Cassidy's bigger, meaner, Navy SEAL brother."
Martin Fitzpatrick and Tommy James: "Me, the Mob, and the Music"
"Because of all the personal connections, I felt like I had a stake in this act. Every time I hear that first Cowsills hit, it evokes memories of that time and place. It was one of the greatest-sounding records I ever heard. It was as powerfully emotional and evocative as "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys. When the NBC network had such a great success with the Monkees TV show, ABC wanted to get into the act and they conceived a show based on and starring the Cowsills, but there was so much haggling with the father that the deal fell through and the musical actress Shirley Jones and her son David Cassidy went on to star in The Partridge Family, which was one of the highest-rated television shows in the early seventies. David Cassidy is still performing the hits from the TV show to this day."
Lindsey Crittenden: "The Water Will Hold You"
One lazy afternoon in my tenth year, I lay on my two-tone pink shag rug, reading. Blake was in the Jungle with Bob, his best friend. Mom and Dad were in their bedroom, napping as they always did on weekend afternoons. David Cassidy sang from my turntable, over and over, "I think I love you.""
Kim Strickland: "Wish Club"
"His eyes continued to scan her studio, checking it out. He was wearing a pookah-shell necklace. Kids, Jill thought. She wondered if he'd ever heard of David Cassidy."
Laurie Lindeen: "Petal Pusher"
WHEN I was in fourth grade my parents hired a babysitter to take me to a David Cassidy concert. Once my eyes and imagination feasted on the Partridge Family on Friday nights, David replaced my Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman, and Donny Osmond posters on my closet door quickly and completely. When I got to his rescheduled concert (he canceled for emergency gall bladder surgery, and I had to wait half a year), ten thousand other girls knew all of the words to his songs, too. And even more threatening, some of the girls were teenagers with breasts. David didn't belong to me at all. I felt betrayed. Bitter. All of that energy invested into nothing. I knew it wasn't going to be a private concert in my logical mind, but I guess I thought I'd meet him and he'd somehow know me. That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea."
Gillian Greenwood: "Satisfaction"
"A hospital at first, I think. I didn't much care at the time," said Amy. "Things were so much better after Jane arrived. She was wonderful. It felt like a sort of golden age, and it lasted for about four months. She opened up things in some way, and people began to come and visit us, friends from school. She'd play music, quite loudly, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles, and whatever we were keen on, David Cassidy probably, and there were always flowers, I remember, and wonderful food.""
Sarah Salway: "The ABCs of Love"
"Did I like David Cassidy or Donny Osmond? he asked, because in his experience, girls usually went for one or the other. Although, of course, he went on, his eyes still shut, if a girl was really cool, she'd go for Bryan Ferry. Kate had liked . . ."
Monica McInerney: "The Alphabet Sisters"
Bett tugged self-consciously at that same head of curls, now at least slightly less mad. Lola had sent her that photo, too. It had arrived with just a scrawled note, subtle as ever. "Remember the good times with your sisters as well." It had been taken at a country show in outback South Australia more than twenty years previously, at one of the Alphabet Sisters' earliest singing performances. Anna had been thirteen, Bett eleven, and Carrie eight. Bett could even remember the songs: "Song Sung Blue," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and a David Cassidy pop song. Just minutes after the photo had been taken, a fly had buzzed its way straight into Anna's mouth. Her shocked expression and sudden squawk had made Bett and Carrie laugh so much both of them had fallen off the small stage, a wide plank of wood balanced on eight milk crates. The memory could still make Bett laugh."
Christopher Andersen: "Mick"
Still, as he approached his twenty-ninth birthday, Mick had to face the fact that many of his contemporaries were either dead (Hendrix, Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian) or, like the Beatles and other groups that led the first wave of the British invasion, already beginning to be seen as quaint relics of a bygone era. Newcomers like the Jackson 5 and David Cassidy now vied for every dollar spent by teenage record buyers, while acts like Alice Cooper, the Grateful Dead, The Who, and Led Zeppelin competed for the allegiance of diehard rock fans. At the same time, Elton John, Lou Reed, and David Bowie cashed in on the glam-rock trend that Mick had pioneered."
Kim Barnes: "In the Wilderness"
Those nights as a child when I lay in my grandmother's bed, comforted by her soft presence, I felt little nostalgia for the woods, or even Luke. Instead, I thought of the faces of young men I had seen on Nan's TV: Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, others with pearly grins and hair brushing their shoulders. Nan gave me money to buy the teen magazines that held their pictures, then gave me half the wall space in her room to hang the glossy centerfolds."
William Bernhardt: "Dark Eye"
"Short drive with the top lowered down the streets of neon did me a world of good. Saw the transparent dome of the Fremont Street Exposition, my new favorite tourist joint. Basically, they tarted up the old Strip so it could compete with the new, and did a darn good job of it, in my opinion. Hey, beats seeing David Cassidy lip-sync or the ten billionth magic show, right?"
Leslie Carroll: "Miss Match"
Kathryn, meanwhile, was checking out the other patrons. Walker followed her gaze. "Who does that guy think he is, David Cassidy?" he quipped, looking at the mane of chestnut hair on a gentleman sitting alone with his drink."
S.G. Browne: "Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel"
"And after taking care of business with David Cassidy, my reality has a yearning for some hanky-panky. David Cassidy is standing naked in front of a full-length mirror singing "I Think I Love You." At least I think it's David Cassidy. His head is shaved, along with most of the rest of his body—his hair in a pile on the hardwood floor at his feet. He still has his pubic hair and his eyebrows, but he removes the eyebrows in the time it takes me to uncap the bottles of Coors."
Mick Brown: "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound"
"An unexpected financial windfall arrived in the form of the teenage actor, Shaun Cassidy. The half brother of the pop idol David Cassidy, Shaun was the star of a television program The Hardy Boys, and had recently signed with Warner Curb Records, a label owned by an entrepreneur named Mike Curb, who had started in the business hiring out musical instruments. Larry Levine would remember Curb as "a little nebbish," who was occasionally seen hauling a keyboard into Gold Star for a Spector session. It was a period that Curb evidently remembered with some fondness. Looking for a song for Shaun Cassidy's first single, Curb steered the young singer toward "Da Doo Ron Ron.""
Teresa Medeiros: "Goodnight Tweetheart"
Abby_Donovan: Oh, I don't think so. That would be discounting the seminal influence on the pop/rock genre of David Cassidy's "I Think I Love You."
"MarkBaynard: Tell her Roger Daltrey can still kick David Cassidy's ass. Tell her she's prettier than Jen or Angelina. Tell her she was the love of my life.
