David Cavanagh

David Cavanagh was an Irish writer and music journalist, best known for his the critically acclaimed[1] 2000 book My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize, which detailed the rise and fall of Creation Records, and for his editorship of Select magazine in the 1990s.

Cavanagh was born in Dublin, and grew up in Northern Ireland.[2] He wrote for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo.[2]

He died by suicide 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
  • 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
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References
  1. "Top music journalist 'delayed suicide to not disrupt people going home for Christmas'". Daily Mirror. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  2. Harris, John (31 December 2018). "David Cavanagh: the writer who saw the musicians behind the music". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-12-31 – via www.theguardian.com.
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