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Q: Whatever happened to the Cowsills, the singing family that inspired the TV show The Partridge Family?
The Cowsills - Barbara Cowsill and six of her children - broke up in 1972 after several lean years.
The group's rise and fall caused a lot of bitterness. Father Bud Cowsill, the group's manager, fired son Bill in 1970 and ostracized another son, Richard, by rejecting him for the group after a single three-minute audition at age 12.
Barbara Cowsill died of emphysema in 1985, but four of her children reunited as a grup in 1990: Bob, Susan, John and Paul. They tour and record occasionally, but have not been signed to a record contract.
Today, Bill Cowsill is a country performer in Canada, and most of his siblings are out of show business. Bud Cowsill, who worked at sea for 13 years after the group broke up, died in the early 1990s.
According to a 1990 People article, bad investments and mismanagement squandered all the profits fromt he Cowsills' hit songs, including Hair, We Can Fly and Indian Lake.
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