“Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.”

American actor and musician

David Cassidy was an American actor and musician. Born in 1950, he became widely known in the 1970s as Keith Partridge on the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. He died in 2017. He was also an international solo singer, with a career that reached far beyond his television fame. At one point, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, and his work linked popular music and television stardom.