Go On And Cry

Teardrop requiem
How a billboard tribute went viral

 Saying goodbye’s not easy — especially when the person you’re grieving has made an indelible impression on your heart.

Read the article by Mark Wyckoff

 

REQUIEM IMAGE

Lynnette from the UK has been in contact with both Sony and Randy Fung, the designer of the billboard message, and received permission for 500 fans to use the design below on a T-shirt. The design is free and must not be sold. 

To be able to distribute the image, and ensure we adhere to the copyright arrangement, a form has been designed. If you would like to receive the image, which is of a size suitable to be printed on a shirt, please fill in the form. You will receive an email with the image within a few days.

Thank you Lynnette for organising this for David’s fans. 

 

Campaign to get David a star in Las Vegas

Fans have begun a campaign to get David a star in Las Vegas, at the Walk Of Stars. It has already been approved by the Walk Of Stars Committee, and has a tentative date to be completed in April 2019.

The target is $20,000 which includes all fees and the ceremony. All donations are tax deductable.

This is all being done by the fans, for the fans and his family. All information can be found on David Cassidy’s Star Facebook page. 

In 1996, David took over the lead role at the MGM Grand in the $75 million extravaganza EFX. The producers of EFX had seen David in “Blood Brothers” and contacted him about taking over the lead role. David said he would as long as he could have creative input into making major changes.

Under David Chisium and David Cassidy’s creative direction, EFX was entirely re-vamped. They gave it more of a plot, made it less dark, introduced a circus act, and David Cassidy wrote new music for the play.

EFX then became the most successful production in Las Vegas. The MGM acknowledged that David Cassidy was singularly responsible for bringing over 1 million paid customers to see EFX. Within four months of opening, the show was voted “Most Improved Show in Las Vegas”, “Best Production Show” in Las Vegas, and David was voted “Best All Around Performer” and “Best Singer.”

In 1999, David was again named “Best All Around Performer” in the Review Journal’s Best of Las Vegas. He was also chosen City Life’s “Entertainer of the Year” and was dubbed “Show Star of the Year” by Gaming Today.

 

 

David Cassidy Memorial Race – August 18, 2018

A memorial race in honor of David Cassidy will take place on the Alabama S. undercard at Saratoga Saturday, August 18, 2018.

According to a Facebook page devoted to the event, the David Cassidy Memorial Race will honor his “love of Thoroughbred racing and his horsemanship” and that friends and fans of David will take a tour of the Saratoga paddock pre-race before being invited into the winner’s circle for the post-race photo.

David Cassidy leads in Sweet Vendetta, a filly he bred in partnership, following the 2008 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

David Cassidy Tribute Concert – August 14, 2018

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE 

The David Cassidy Tribute Concert has moved to Putnam Place (instead of the Horseshoe Inn) in Saratoga Springs. The Horseshoe Inn is an outdoor venue and with the forecast of thunderstorms, there was a risk the concert was not going to happen.

New venue: 
Putnam Place
63a Putnam Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

The David Cassidy Tribute Concert will take place 7″30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14  and will benefit the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.

David had a passion for Thoroughbred racing, and was ardent in his support of TRF and its mission of saving former racehorses from abuse and neglect.

Members of David’s band – Teri Cote (drums), Craig Snider (keyboards/vocals); Dave Robicheau (guitar/vocals); Matt Sullivan (guitar/vocals); Vance Brescia (guitar/vocals) and Darrell Craig Harris (bass/vocals), are anticipated to perform at the event.

Tickets are $50 and available by calling TRF at 518-226-0028 or online at https://www.trfinc.org/event/david-cassidy-band-special-guests/.