C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus | 
| Author: David Cassidy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 124920
Media: Paperback
Pages: 242
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0446395315
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164092
EAN: 9780446395311
ASIN: 0446395315
Publication Date: July 1, 1994
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Product Description
A teen idol and the highest paid solo performer of the 1970s tells of his experiences in the groupie-stalked role of Keith Partridge, from working with his family to his tempestuous relationships with his co-actors.
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 New Book is Better March 22, 2009
T. Chambers (SoCal)
If you are interested in the constant whining of this guy, who is now a lounge lizard in Vegas and would be selling shoes in Fresno if not for the Partridge Family, try his more recent autobiography, published in England, "COULD IT BE FOREVER." It's more forthcoming and a little less self-serving than this title, and it updates his father's death and his relationship with his half-brothers.
 HOT, Steamy, & Sexy--just like David Cassidy! January 6, 2009
Suzie Phillips (Tampa, FL)
ASIN:0446395315 C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus]] This book will tell you in David's own words, some of the things he went through in his life. First as a child, unhappy that his father divorced his mother and left them both behind. Then as a teen idol; something he didn't want. If you had an misconception that David Cassidy was the same as the goody-two-shoes Keith Partridge, this book will blow that out of the water!
 The wild life of T.V's Keith Partridge June 8, 2007
Courtney Rabideau (USA)
I am a Partridge Family fan, so when I heard that David Cassidy wrote a book about his experiences being Keith Partridge I wanted to read about it.
David Cassidy is very candid about his life. he starts off talking about his childhood as the son of Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward. Then for the majority of the book he goes into the teen/adult years of his life spend having sex with MANY woman and doing alot of drugs. I was not happy because by the title I thought he would spend more time talking about the Partridge Family, but hwe did not. It was an interesting book though, and if you want to know more about David Cassidy this book is for you
 Go back in a time-warp and wander around a bit in a strange land that used to be the USA May 21, 2007
TUCO H. (Los Angeles, CA)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Skimmed over a few chapters of this book while I was re-selling it from a garage sale pick up and it was yet another pretty interesting reminder of how things used to be and how much they've changed and regressed for the worse rather than better, not to mention a somewhat unintentional complete laugh riot in spots.
Despite his teeny-bopper image and music, Cassidy had pretensions to being a real `artist' (hey, at least he put in an effort!) and wants you to know very early on in the book that though the 'coolness' never transferred to his music, he's really the guy-man-dude ultimate hipster of the 60s & 70s, really even more like Hunter S. Thompson in real life than the ten-times-more-talented drug-casualty similarly-shag-haircutted Gram Parsons, going as far back as when he was 17 (Davy-boy's drug-use from the time he was in junior-high is introduced very early on in the book in a very straightforward style, as a way of establishing his `street-credentials' to interest a wider audience that would respond to the marketing device of using the instant drug-connected cultural-pavlov-symbol of the phrase "Fear & Loathing" which he borrowed from Thompson who made it famous but who had himself borrowed it from Kierkergaard). Just to mention one of the more hilariously unabashed boasts of the book. According to Davy boy (nicknamed "the Donk" for his similarity to a Donkey in a certain part of his anatomy), he used to last about 2 minutes with most of the girls he met. Girls who would actually just walk up to him and say "Hi, want to f --- ?" This was BEFORE he made it big on the Partridge family during the now legendary 'summer of love' love-ins. According to him, this had nothing to do with his pretty boy looks and it was not at all unusual. The times were different. Magic was in the air. Well, after the 2-minute boy-wonder soaked up some Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and granted he was having a good trip and not a bum one, he was able to go for 4 to 5 hours. The girl begged him to stop at 2 in the morning and then had to limp home! When he called her later, she thanked him for the most unusual night and said she had a hard time walking. Way to go, Davy boy! The machoest of real rock stars will have a tough time topping that one!
Cassidy went from making 8 million dollars in the 70s, from having more people in his fan club than Elvis to less than a 1000 dollars in his bank account and crashing in the extra room of friends in the mid '80s. Where were all his loyal fans? Did they all move on to Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls? According to him, the studio made over 500 million dollars from merchandising his image alone. Everyone wrote him off and forgot about him. Even his old friend that big hole Don Johnson snubbed him when he was riding high on Miami Vice. When a guy goes from such a total success to such a complete crash, you can't help but KNOW he was blacklisted from the industry for some dark and mysterious reason.
Maybe there will be clues to the mystery in the other bio book he wrote. Good fun read, this one, much more than you would expect from an ex TV star.
I wonder what David Cassidy's life was like March 13, 2007
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1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am an long lost David Cassidy fan, lol, 48 now. I saw this book, bought, and read it. I am so sorry to hear of his financial misgivings. I think I could have handled his money better. I don't understand why he didn't get a lawyer to help with his financial affairs. Alas, so goes. Anyway, interesting to learn a teen idol's life isn't all so interesting. I was sorry to read Susan Dey never keeps in contact with him. The part in the book, was silly teen stuff. You'd think she'd grown up and want to keep in touch with old friends. Maybe, she still has a crush on David. Who knows. Interesting book, not recommended for children, written by David Cassidy, himself. Remember, he is writing an autobiography, not Gone With the Wind.
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