According to legendary punk manager Danny Fields, David Cassidy wasn’t the squeaky-clean teen his fans imagined.
Marking the passing of the “Partridge Family” star who died two weeks ago, Fields — who managed the Ramones and Iggy Pop — wrote an account for PleaseKillMe.com of Cassidy’s tragic ’74 UK concert, during which a fan was crushed to death.
In the piece, Fields writes that some years after the gig, Cassidy told him, “Like it or not, I had to be publicly cutesy and an eternal virginal teen.”
Fields says that, when pressed for the truth, Cassidy said, “I was a wild f—king maniac, banging every girl I could.”