Leif Garrett *IS*

Leif Garrett Was made for Dancing all night long

When I was his age (or probably younger) I would sometimes sneak away from my mom in the grocery store to go over to the magazine rack and look at TIGER BEAT for photos of Leif Garrett and his thick dick.

Leif just came out with his memoir. I've only read the first few pages online, and it seems like it may be an interesting read.

There's a whole chapter on Rick Finch (from KC and the Sunshine Band) who produced an album for him. Apparently Leif lived with Rick and KC for a couple of months during the recording, and Rick had a thing for him. That must have been an interesting stay.

He never seems to sing his songs. If you listen closely, his voice is spliced with other male voices. I doubt if he could belly-up to a mic and belt out a rock song. He was a total Tiger Beat creation.

In the 70s, all you needed for success was a Farrah Fawcett hairdo.

Leif Garrett is still my secret boyfriend.

Im sorry, but I don't see it. I GET Bobby Sherman & David Cassidy - But i don't get Leif Garrett. After his 2 year"teen Idol" ride he never had any other level of success.

[R7] Yeah, I never got Leif either. I never got Sherman either, frankly. Now Cassidy...he was hot AND he could sing.

R5 Are you sure that’s not Mackenzie Phillips?

Leif didn't have a TV show like Bobby or David so he was never really THAT famous.

I prefer Kid Danger

I was obsessed with him. Oddly not in a sexual way - but just super cool guy seemingly with all the latest styles and on all the popular sitcoms - and ChiPs.

Leif and his twin brother were never on my set at the same time. There must have been a lot of tension between them. Sad :(

Leif and Rick Finch:

They should have call that Tiger Beat-Off magazine.

R14 "That little blonde prick led my woman astray!"

-- KC

He's pretty funny on all those World's Dumbest..... shows now showing on Tru Network......a bunch of has beens including Tonya Harding and Todd Bridges, Daniel Baldwin and Danny Bonaduce doing commentary....

Little bitch had NOTHING on my cuteness level!!!

And I never had to give up my asshole to KC and the Sunshine Band!!

Did Leif say he slept with Rick Finch? Damn, I need to get this book.

Has anyone here read it yet?

[quote]Im sorry, but I don't see it. I GET Bobby Sherman & David Cassidy

I was going through some old photos after my parents passed away. I stumbled on a picture of me as a little kid on the floor with my hands under my chin gleefully smiling while staring right at a record album with Bobby Sherman! LOL And they still pretended to be shocked that I was gay.

Leif was not good looking. He was really an icon for teen girls because of the hair and non threatening boy/girl look. Teen girls, even now don't usually have their first crush on real MEN. Like with body hair and testicles.

This was the IT look at the time.

2 for 1

R23 Now thats a sandwich of good looking men. Not that lady boy Leif

And the recent state of affairs ...

r25 R u fucking SERIOUS?

I feel bad for the guy.

I can only imagine what Hollywood sleaze went after that kid.

Went down a rabbit hole (NEVER been married - dated Kristy McNichol?) and discovered THIS...

R18 - I always thought Parker Stevenson was the better looking Hardy Boy.

Plus, he has a bigger dick.

I don't know. The large Cassidy dick was legendary. David inherited it; perhaps his brothers did also.

R28 R29 Actually, Shaun Cassidy is supposed to have a dick like a can of coke. Shirley Jones (his mom) actually (weirdly) talks about how well-endowed all the Cassidy boys are in her memoir. David supposedly had a long donkey-dick.

R22 STUNNING! There will NEVER be another like him.

R25 R26 As bad as that is, he still looks better than KC (but pretty much everybody does!) I'm still having a hard time believing this is the same person I whacked off to while watching Soul Train.

From eyewitness reports David Cassidy's dick was very long and thin. Nothing on Patrick, who ended up the hottest of them all.

And the most talented.

R34 Barf

Why hasn't he ever gotten married?

Why doesn't he WORK?

Well, he’s no Austin Mahone.

Shirley Jones is wildly inappropriate to discuss the dick size of her sons...it’s not something she should share with the public. She’s so gross.

R 29 Around 1975 or '76 I saw an underground gay magazine about nude celebrities and it had a genuine photograph of David Cassidy taken by Annie Leibovitz during her photo shoot for the cover of Rolling Stone in 1972, where David is seen from the hips up, apparently nude. But this photo in the gay magazine (which I saved for years but eventually threw away) had an outtake photo taken during the photoshoot that day by Annie and it was a full, complete nude of David laying in the same pose as he is on the R.S. cover except this went all the way down to at least his knees and you could see his huge erection and it was indeed very big and long, I would guess at least 9 inches. What surprised me wasn't that he was nude but that he had an erection for this photo shoot. I don't know how the magazine got that photo which obviously was never intended to be published and I've searched for decades and have never found it anywhere else. I saved that picture for years but finally threw it away. Back then there was no way for me to copy and save it like we can now on a computer. I found this magazine through an ad in the back of a tabloid I got at a porno shop around 1975. So, I've seen David's dick and I can verify it was huge! Straight, medium thickness.

Under the circumstances, Garrett aged relatively well.

I disagree R33, I thought Ryan was the most photogenic and cutest. Also, I think him being closest to my age made him better.

I used to sneak away from my mom in supermarkets to read the copies of Tiger Beat in the magazine aisle, Leif Garrett always presented with a THICK cock, it drove me crazy

R40 Really?! I though Leibovitz claimed she didn't photograph his dick? I read an interview where she claimed that the question people most frequently asked her was "where are the pics of David's penis?" and she said that she didn't shoot down that far.

She could be lying, of course. I've heard she was a huge druggie dyke (aside from being an overrated photographer, lol).

R39 Yes, really creepy and weird. I guess she thought all the smut would sell more books.

[quote] Leif Garrett is still my secret boyfriend.

That’s unfortunate.

So you posted a ten year old article R46? His past drug use isn’t a secret. There was a biography on him, done on a show like Behind The Music. I’m not going to look it up to confirm details, it’s old news. It was very obvious he’d done permanent damage to his brain cells. He’s a somewhat functional vegetable.

I saw that biography about Leif on Behind the Music. The funnies line was that when he got arrested a second time the cop said to him "have you seen that show Where Are They Now? Well look where you are now!" LOL

[quote] So you posted a ten year old article [R46]? His past drug use isn’t a secret. There was a biography on him, done on a show like Behind The Music. I’m not going to look it up to confirm details, it’s old news. It was very obvious he’d done permanent damage to his brain cells. He’s a somewhat functional vegetable.

No it’s no secret. All of the gory details are common knowledge. Those details and his appearance = an unfortunate choice of boyfriend.

If anyone has any juicy excerpts from his book, A LA the Tatum O'Neal book thread, do post!

What a bottom feeder he is. And IIRC, the girl who played Dodie on MY THREE SONS is his sister.

We should be grateful that he never had children.

R44 All I know for sure is what I saw in that magazine of nude celebrities and it was definitely an Annie Leibovitz photo taken during the photo shoot for the David Cassidy Rolling Stone cover in 1972 and in the photo I saw he was completely nude all the way down and had a huge erection sticking straight up toward his head. I of course was familiar with the R. S. cover so recognized it right away as being from that same day. I'm no expert but the picture looked to me to be genuine, not tampered with. My best guess is of course Annie took a nude erection shot of David and I will bet it was 100% David's idea. Naturally he would have told her to never publish it but if she had someone else make the prints for her a copy might have been secretly stolen. What's really surprising though is that this nude photo never seems to have made it beyond that 1975 gay magazine which was only sold through a mail in ad in the back of a gay tabloid sold in porno shops. I'm not surprised that she says she never took a photo of David's penis but there are only two people who know the truth and one of them is dead now. I am convinced the photo was the real thing. That was 45 years ago and I wish I had saved it. I finally decided I'd never need it again. If only I had had a computer back then.

R52 Well, in that same interview with Leibovitz, she also stated that he had an erection when she was photographing him, and that he said something like "can I get some help, here?", insinuating that she should perform a sex act on him (supposedly he was high on coke during the shoot). But that is confirmation from Leibovitz herself that he had an erection, so I think her claim about not photographing his dick is total BS. I mean...you have a camera in your hand, and you're photographing the most famous teen idol of the decade, and you're NOT going to sneak a pic or two of his penis? Seriously?!

My sons have bigger ones

R53 Thanks for that input. I didn't know that Annie confirmed that David did have an erection during the Rolling Stone photoshoot. Now I know for sure that the photo I saw of David lying on his back nude with an erection, was a genuine photo. I wonder where it is now? I'm sure Annie still has it or at least the negative.

I'm betting Leif got his dick sucked quite a lot back when he was pretty.

I'm always amazed when celebrities go out of their ways to make themselves look as unappealing as possible, when just moderate or even small changes could make them look so much better.

This is Leif Garrett in 2017. His face is not hideous, but that hair and unkempt facial hair, that stupid head scarf, the slovenly attire, and the extra weight make him look awful.

R57 He probably got fed up with not being that 20-something guy anymore.

He's partially bald-hence the head scarf.

He looks really bad, like a teen idol who let his looks go to seed....oh, wait....😆

R57 Why is his nose ghostly white?

The extra weight probably means he was off opiods when the pic was taken, so it's not necessarily a bad sign. An extra 30 lbs is a small price to pay (for a straight guy!) for getting off heroin.

So, has anyone bought his book yet????

Quoting from another thread: "Leif Garrett has a chapter in his book about staying at Rick’s house in Miami while recording an album. According to Leif, Rick tried continuously to seduce him, even crawling into his bed one night. The way Leif describes it, the whole experience in Miami was grim and creepy."

The guy at r5 reminds me of Ross Lynch.

R65 That's Leif Garrett...

R40 in the pic does David look cut or uncut?

Yes, I read Leif’s book and really enjoyed it. It doesn’t read as a linear story, but is laid out in chapters of topics. One chapter is called “Masturbation” and Leif is very honest about things and tells a shocking story of Michael Jackson basically asking to jerk off together (they didn’t.)

After reading the book, I have so much respect for Garrett. His father left when he was a small child and then when Leif was grown, the guy suddenly walked into Leifs room and introduced himself. A heart breaking part is about the time Leif was in a car accident that made his passenger and best friend a lifelong paraplegic. Leif went bankrupt trying to support the guy. He talks about being the biggest teen star in the world, yet being lonely and wishing for anyone’s company. He was highly controlled and manipulated by his record company.

Anyhow, I highly suggest the book. He comes across as a brave, kind and very honorable guy.

R68 Yeah, I heard the story about his friend and the car accident in the 'behind the music' doc on Vh1. Kid stars back then didn't have a chance--- they got screwed royally. I wish him well and hope his book sells decently.

Check out this 20yr old article. It might have made a neat little indie film at the time.

R70 That's an interesting article. I hope all the surviving Leifettes buy his book.

Leif’s book is terrific if you have any interest in the teen star phenomenon of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Another good read on this topic is: MEOW! MY GROOVY LIFE WITH TIGER BEAT’S TEEN STARS by Anne Moses, and, COULD IT BE FOREVER, MY STORY by David Cassidy.

R67 You can almost tell in this pic, lol.

R67 It looked circumcised.

Roland winkler the guy that was paralyzed in the car accident with Garrett in 1979 died in 2017.

Shaun Cassidy started playing shows again within the last year or so at small venues and most of the tour sold out.

A boy born in New York in 1950, it would have been unusual for him to have been uncircumcised. R67

R39 Oh, for fucks sake, Shirley Jones played the mother of David Cassidy's character on The Partridge Family.

She wasn’t David Cassidy's real mother.

But it was weird that they dated a little.

R77 But she also discussed the size of her biological sons, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan.

R78 She also gave some masturbation tips to seniors in her book. I'm sorry, she's just weird.

She was probably told to sex up the maunscript. Her husband probably came up with the weird stuff.

They never dated r77. You’re confusing Shirley Jones with Florence Henderson who went out on a date with Barry Williams.

R81 R77 Yeah, Shirley was married to David's dad, Jack Cassidy, for the entire run of the series, so I doubt they dated, lol.

Believe you’re correct r81. The 70s were all just such a haze ...

Barry gave Flo the clap.

She talked about all of her sons she had with Jack Cassidy...”they’re all hung like donkeys”, she was quoted as saying...creepy. Right up there with what Trump said about dating Ivanka.

Maybe worse.

What was her husband's name? Marty Something? He probably added that stuff into the book.

is it pronounced Leaf or Lafe?

Not a homo

R87 "Layfe" like "waif"

R86 Marty Ingles. The were separated for MANY years before his death.

R86 Shirley Jones actually turned down the role of Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch, and she and Florence Henderson were good friends.

No they weren’t r90, they separated several times, but they were together at the time of his death. Shirley’s sons loathed him.

R92 Yes, her sons thought he was after her money. That caused friction and led to their separation and Shirley filed for divorce a couple of times. I don't know if their separation was legal, but they remained friends until his death.

R68 LOL, Leif gave Michael and issue of Penthouse and sent him on his way.

Leif does come off as a decent guy and it makes me sad to wonder how different his life would have been if he hadn't been screwed over by everyone.

R94 Also, if he had not been obsessed with becoming a rock star like Robert Plant. He just didn't have the talent to be that and he might have had a better chance if he had devoted all his energies to an acting career. Except for The Outsiders all the movies he made were B or C list and quickly forgotten. He was quite good in The Outsiders.

[Quote] how different his life would have been if he hadn't been screwed over by everyone.

I disagree. He had more options than most.

R96 Did Andrew Stevens direct Leif in a movie?

David Cassidy and Leif were both in "Spirit Of '76". Leif was very funny in it.

Not true R77. her boys thought he was obnoxious and overbearing. He was always “on” all the time, but financial he was successful as an agent for older celebrities who wanted commercial and endorsement deals.

R99, I think you were referring to R93

So has anyone read his fucking book yet?

I want DIRT! lol

Leif Garrett's thick cock was like Remdesivir to my cock-thirsty cock

A juicy excerpt from his book:

You couldn't miss him. He looked excited to see me, with a leering ear-to-ear grin. He was in his mid-twenties, kind of scrawny, with stringy hair and a face that looked vaguely Asian...and who could forget those sweat pants, which left nothing to the imagination? My first thought was, "Dude, next time you might want to think about underwear before wearing those things again". But, hey, this was Rick Finch who had some out to pick me up, so I didn't want to judge too quickly or too harshly. This guy, the co-founder, bassist and co-producer of KC and the Sunshine Band, had sold literally millions of records. And now, to his seeming delight, I was in his hands. [...] We soon arrived at his home, where, as it turned out, I stayed for two months. No hotel? Nope. This had been arranged perhaps on the one hand to save the Scottis money, but I'm guessing this also was something Rick had pushed to the Scotti brothers to agree to for his own more private, lascivious purposes. [...] Nothing was left to chance, it seemed, in this sterile environment -- except maybe what he imagined happening in the bedroom.

You couldn't miss him. He looked excited to see me, with a leering ear-to-ear grin. He was in his mid-twenties, kind of scrawny, with stringy hair and a face that looked vaguely Asian...and who could forget those sweat pants, which left nothing to the imagination? My first thought was, "Dude, next time you might want to think about underwear before wearing those things again." But, hey, this was Rick Finch who had some out to pick me up, so I didn't want to judge too quickly or too harshly. This guy, the co-founder, bassist and co-producer of KC and the Sunshine Band, had sold literally millions of records. And now, to his seeming delight, I was in his hands. [...] We soon arrived at his home, where, as it turned out, I stayed for two months. No hotel? Nope. This had been arranged perhaps on the one hand to save the Scottis money, but I'm guessing this also was something Rick had pushed to the Scotti brothers to agree to for his own more private, lascivious purposes. [...] Nothing was left to chance, it seemed, in this sterile environment -- except maybe what he imagined happening in the bedroom.

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Jesus H. Christ...! That Finch guy is SCARY!

R104 Geez....poor Leif!!! Yikes!

I know Rick Finch isn't happy about that chapter...KC probably isn't either, as it just associates him yet again with Finch.

[quote] "That little blonde prick led my woman astray!" -- KC

Shit, R16, I know you were kidding, but you hit pretty close to the mark! Have you read Leif's book yet? Check out this crazy excerpt:

On my days off, I did my best to avoid Rick's subtle advances, which, at a certain point, seemed to fade once he got the message. He got a little bitchy over that, but he still worked hard in the studio. But it was still a weird scene down there. One night when I got back to the house, I walked through the kitchen, and for the first and only time there I saw KC, his face illuminated by the light coming from the refrigerator door. "Hey, man," I said, introducing myself, "I'm--" "I know who you are," he shot back tersely before slamming the door shut and walking out. Did he think something was happening with me and Rick?

I'm a 70's kid, and I always loathed all the teen idols...which is weird, me being gay and all, you'd think I would have had crushes on all of them, but no. I despised every last one of them, except maybe David Cassidy, because I remember watching the Partridge Family. But Donny Osmond, Shaun Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Tony DeFranco...I just wanted to punch them. But the one I hated most of all was Leif Garrett. He just looked like a little bitch, and he had ZERO musical talent. None. You could tell the producers went crazy trying to make his voice sound halfway decent. At least the other guys could sing. (Well, Bobby Sherman was pretty awful, but he at least attacked his material with a certain admirable gusto. Plus he had the good sense to walk away from it all when the hits stopped happening, so kudos to Bobby.)

R110 I never thought Leif was very interesting, either. I loved David Cassidy, though...he was amazing.

Rick Finch was really "grooming" Leif--- a portent of things to come!

R109 That chapter really "outs" KC...I wouldn't be surprised if Leif got a call from KC's lawyer-- apparently, KC loves to sue everybody.

Here's a crazy story-

An old friend of mine has a KC fan page on Facebook and she got a message from KC's niece, Chanel, who asked her to remove a photo of KC and Rick Finch together (for "legal" reasons or some bullshit). I guess paranoid KC has his friends and family scouring the internet looking for things that might displease him. What a fuck. I think I still like Rick better, lol.

Do you know rick r108? I know he was living in Ohio after his release from jail and still is per the Ohio sex offender registry . Any chance he writes his own book?

Leif Garrett *WAS* one of the hellspawn in '[bold]Devil Times Five[/bold]' (1974):

R113 He mentioned writing a memoir years ago, before his arrest, which obviously put the book on hold. Who knows if it will ever happen now that he's a convicted sex offender. It even had a title "Behind The Sunshine" or something like that.

R113 I'm R108, and no, I don't know him personally, but R115 is correct--- Rick was working on a book.

Watched an episode of "Cannon" starring William Conrad (pre-Jake and the Fatman days) and Leif Garrett and his biological sister, Dawn Lyn both appeared as brother and sister. She was best known for playing Dodie on "My Three Sons", a child with a voice that made Cindy Brady sound adenoid free.

I'd forgotten Leif and Dawn were siblings. Unlike her brother though, her life never turned to shit.