David Cavanagh Explained

David Cavanagh was an Irish writer and music journalist. He was editor of Select magazine in the 1990s and wrote My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize (2000), which detailed the rise and fall of Creation Records.^[1]

Cavanagh was born in Dublin, and grew up in Northern Ireland. During his career, he wrote for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo.^[2]

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

Books by Cavanagh

• The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Scandals. Bounty, 1989. .
• Love Is the Drug. Penguin, 1994. Edited by John Aizlewood. .
• . Virgin, 2001. .^{[3] [4]}
• Music for Boys. Fourth Estate, 2003. .
• 1000 Songs to Change Your Life. Time Out, 2008. Edited by Will Fulford-Jones and John Lewis. .
• Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life. Faber & Faber, 2015. .

External links

• Cavanagh's writing for Uncut

Notes and References

1. News: Davidson. Tom. 4 May 2024. Top music journalist 'delayed suicide to not disrupt people going home for Christmas'. Daily Mirror. 25 April 2019.
2. News: John. Harris. 2018-12-31. David Cavanagh: the writer who saw the musicians behind the music. The Guardian. 31 December 2018. 0261-3077. www.theguardian.com.
3. Web site: 2023-05-16. Book Review: David Cavanagh - The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize. DrownedInSound. 16 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230516051923/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/4674/reviews/2113-. dead.
4. News: 2023-05-16. Reading the label. The Guardian. 25 November 2000. 0261-3077.