David Cavanagh

David Cavanagh was an Irish writer and music journalist who was the editor of Select magazine in the 1990s. ^[1] He books include My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize (2000), which detailed the rise and fall of Creation Records, ^[2] and Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life, about John Peel. ^[3]

Cavanagh was born in Dublin and grew up in Northern Ireland. ^[1] During his career, he wrote for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo. ^[1]

He died by suicide in Luton in December 2018, aged 54. ^{[2] [1]}

Books by Cavanagh

• The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Scandals. Bounty, 1989. ISBN   978-1851528691.
• Love Is the Drug. Penguin, 1994. Edited by John Aizlewood. ISBN   978-0-1402-4199-0.
• The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize. Virgin, 2001. ISBN   978-0-7535-0645-5. ^{[4] [5]}
• Music for Boys. Fourth Estate, 2003. ISBN   978-0-0071-487-21.
• 1000 Songs to Change Your Life. Time Out, 2008. Edited by Will Fulford-Jones and John Lewis. ISBN   978-1-8467-0082-8.
• Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life. Faber & Faber, 2015. ISBN   978-0-5713-0247-5.

References

1. Harris, John (31 December 2018). "David Cavanagh: the writer who saw the musicians behind the music". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 31 December 2018– via www.theguardian.com.
2. Davidson, Tom (25 April 2019). "Top music journalist 'delayed suicide to not disrupt people going home for Christmas'". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 4 May 2024.
3. Sandhu, Sukhdev (28 September 2015). "Good Night and Good Riddance: How 35 Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life by David Cavanagh review – a bravura work". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 31 December 2018– via www.theguardian.com.
4. "Book Review: David Cavanagh - The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 16 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
5. "Reading the label". The Guardian. 25 November 2000. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 May 2023.

External links

• Cavanagh's writing for Uncut