I’m trying to decipher a blind item about a young male rock star circa 1972 about to become a TV teen idol. Too late for David Cassidy, too early for Shaun Cassidy. Help!
Was he a deaf, dumb and blind kid who sure played a mean pinball?
A couple come to mind, although I don’t know that they necessarily qualify as rock stars:
Bobby Sherman
Donny Osmond
Too late for Bobby Sherman. He had already become a TV star on Here Comes the Brides, 1969-1971. Donny Osmond qualifies except he was only 14 in 1972, and this is one of those who’s sleeping with whom gossip items.
Roger Daltrey became a TV teen idol?
Would it be Rick Springfield?
One of the Hudson Brothers?
Andy Gibb?
Maybe a stroll through these magazines might help.
NB You will be subjected to plaid polyester poisoning
And you’re not going to give us the blind item? No fair!
More early 80s than early 70s.
What’s a “blind item”?
Maybe there was a show planned for Marc Bolan that never panned out? Is this US based?
A blind item is a line from a gossip column which states something that did/will happen, but does not mention specific names.
Wicked Whispers, in the Mirror I think!
Wait…is this a contemporary (ca. 1972) gossip item that you happened to come across somewhere or is it a current (ca. 2007) gossip item referencing the older event?
This is a 2008 no-names account of a 1972 conversation with movie director George Cukor.
Like Donny Osmond, he would have been only 14 years old in 1972. At least I hope neither was sleeping around at the age.
Ah, I understand now. And just WHO (or should I say what gender) was this person supposed to be sleeping with? Because, frankly, Cukor would probably be much more informed about one than the other.
Leif Garrett?
I got nothing.
Hmm, you may have something there. Cukor was filming at MGM’s British studio in 1972. Bolan had two #1 hits and two #2 hits in 1972. And according to Wikipedia,
Hook, I take back my objection to Rick Springfield. In 1972, he was already a teen idol musician (which I wasn’t aware of…I thought he’d sprung full-grown from obscurity in the early 80s), and he was about to star in his own Saturday Morning cartoon Mission:Magic!