This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast. Wednesday the 22nd November. Sad, sad, sad, sad. I don't like starting with sad things, but it kind of sort of gets it out of the way because, mainly because I met him once, and B, because I knew how big a star he was.

And C, because he'd done everything in his life.

And I'm referring, of course, to David Cassidy, who died age 67.

We just don't see them as being 67 because of television and because of film and because of the photos.

You can still live

David Cassidy's life again when he was, you know, a terribly, terribly pretty boy with

the long hair. But really, that wasn't him at all. That was just the image that the public

had of him in the Partridge family. The story of a family who went out on tour and they played college dates and all the rest of it.

It was a bit like the monkeys.

It was an assembled programme, but he was playing with his screen mother, who was his mother, or stepmother, I think.

And she was in London only a short while ago.

So it's so sad that David's age 67, you know, as I get ever nearer,

sort of these sort of numbers, you start panicking a little bit. We did think the moment his family

were brought in and they were with him that he was, he was battling against that. It was organ

failure. Also, he had dementia. I think for the last two months, he, uh, he'd been sort of going steadily downhill. It's just

that you sort of, you sort of think to yourself, you know, you'd be so thrilled, David, to realize

that people were, were talking about you, because he was an icon in the 70s. When he came over to

this country, he was huge. I mean, girls were screaming and crying, and he had lots of hits,

and you'll probably go on to YouTube and type in David Cassidy, and come up with loads and loads of hit singles. How can I be sure?

Daydry. Oh, he had, oh, God, there were so many blooming hit singles. And they were all done in this sort of breathy, sexy kind of way. The other person that we lost as well was Rodney Buse. Now for people of a certain age,

you'll know Rodney Bues because out of all the things he did in his life, he'll forever be remembered for the likely lads. The likely lads where he played Bob Ferris, together with James Bollum.

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