David Cassidy on the Web
Classic rock, pop and country
March 9, 2011
By Steve Smith
www.presstelegram.com
A BUSY DAVID CASSIDY Sixty-year-old former "Partridge Family" teen idol David Cassidy participated in this season's "Celebrity Apprentice."
He's also been keeping his lawyers busy. Cassidy's asking the producers of the '70's sitcom for a share of the merchandising profits; and his lawyer entered a no contest plea in a Florida courtroom resulting from a DUI in November.
The judge in the DUI case suspended his license for six months, imposed a fine of approximately $500 and sentenced him to one year's probation, plus 50 hours of community service as well as making him attend a DUI victim Impact panel.
Cassidy, who recently expressed a desire to make a guest appearance on "Glee," will tour throughout the year. One special date is April 9 at the Superstar Theatre in Atlantic City, where he'll team up with his "Partridge Family" brother Danny Bonaduce.
RECORDING ARTISTS ON "APPRENTICE" The celebrities assembled for the new season of Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" on NBC include Dionne Warwick, whose first single, "Don't Make Me Over," hit #21 on the pop chart 49 years ago, in 1962; LaToya Jackson, who has released six Top 40 singles on various Billboard charts since 1980; Meat Loaf, whose 1977 LP, "Bat Out of Hell" has sold 43 million copies worldwide; Mark McGrath, singer for Orange County-based band Sugar Ray, who have recorded ten Top 10 singles over the past 14 years;
John Rich of country duo Big & Rich, whose 2007 single, "Lost in The Moment," hit the top of the country chart; and actor Gary Busey, who played Buddy Holly in the 1978 hit biopic, "The Buddy Holly Story." Former teen idol David Cassidy, who sold out the 56,000-seat Houston Astrodome twice in one weekend in 1972, was the first player to be fired by Trump.
