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]

• 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.

• Cavanagh's writing for Uncut