“All Because of You” — a late-career thank-you note that turns love into shelter, and survival into harmony.
If you only know David Cassidy through the bright, fast flash of early fame, “All Because Of You” can feel like meeting him again in a quieter room—older, steadier, and finally willing to speak in a voice that doesn’t need to chase the crowd. The song appears as the closing track on his 1990 comeback album David Cassidy (Enigma), a record released after a long U.S. studio-album gap and framed at the time as a new chapter rather than a nostalgia lap.
Here’s the clearest chart context: “All Because Of You” itself wasn’t the era’s flagship single, and it doesn’t have a widely documented major chart peak as a stand-alone track. The album around it, however, reached No. 136 on the Billboard 200, while the lead single “Lyin’ to Myself” climbed to No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100—proof that Cassidy’s name could still find daylight on contemporary radio in 1990.
What makes “All Because Of You” especially poignant is the way its credits and its casting tell the story before a single note is sung. It’s written by Sue Shifrin and Jon Lind, and Cassidy records it as a duet with Sue Shifrin—his wife at the time—turning a pop song into something closer to a shared diary entry. And there’s another quiet twist: the composition first entered the world through Cher, who recorded “All Because of You” for her 1989 album Heart of Stone. Cassidy and Shifrin weren’t borrowing a random tune; they were reclaiming a song Shifrin had already sent out into the larger pop universe, and pulling it back home.
Listen closely and you can hear how the track is built like a conversation between two people who’ve stopped performing love and started living it. The melody moves with the careful patience of adult contemporary pop—polished, yes, but intentionally unhurried, as if the song understands that gratitude can’t be rushed without turning into sentimentality. Cassidy doesn’t sing it like a heartthrob. He sings it like a man admitting that the best parts of him were not inevitable—someone had to call them out, stay long enough to prove they were real, and keep the lights on when the old ones flickered.
That’s the emotional core of “All Because Of You”: it’s not just romance; it’s recognition. A love song, yes—but also a testimony about being steadied, redirected, and, in small ways, rescued. The duet format matters here. When Sue Shifrin enters, it doesn’t feel like a featured “guest.” It feels like the missing witness arriving to confirm the truth of the story. Their voices aren’t battling for the spotlight; they’re braiding—two timelines meeting in the same chorus.
And maybe that’s why the song lands with such a lingering ache: it reframes David Cassidy not as a memory from a louder decade, but as a human being continuing forward—still writing himself into the present, still learning what to say when the screaming fades. In the end, “All Because Of You” doesn’t beg you to remember. It simply opens its hands and says: this is what remained—this is what mattered.