Dave Davies
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5,382 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Dave Davies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fresh Air · ‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh · 21 Aug 2026
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It opens in theaters next week.
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Heller's latest novel is The Orchard.
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After a break, we remember rock critic Dave Marsh, who died a week ago, and Justin Chang reviews the new film Dreams and Nightmares.
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I'm Dave Davies, and this is Fresh Air.
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This is Fresh Air.
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I'm Dave Davies.
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We're going to remember the influential rock critic Dave Marsh, who died a week ago.
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He was seventy-six.
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He could be a tough critic who didn't mince words, but he was also known for his enthusiasm and for giving voice to the emotional connection many fans had to music.
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Marsh dropped out of Wayne State University in Detroit to help launch the rock magazine Cream before winding up at Rolling Stone.
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He became an early champion of Bruce Springsteen and wrote the Rolling Stone's first cover story about him in 1978.
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Marsh went on to write three biographies of Springsteen and became a close friend.
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The first book, Born to Run, was published in nineteen seventy nine and became a bestseller.
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Upon learning of Marsh's death, Springsteen wrote on social media He was soulful, intelligent, heartfelt, opinionated, bruising, and often fantastically argumentative.
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He deeply believed in what I was trying to accomplish, and his lifetime of support meant the world to me.
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Marsh also wrote books about The Who, Elvis, Michael Jackson, and Sly and the Family Stone.
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In his book The Heart of Rock and Soul, he rated what he considered the thousand and one greatest singles ever made.
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His number one choice, Marvin Gay's I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
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Marsh also wrote a book about the Kingsman's 1963 hit Louie Louie.
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He won a Grammy in 1993 for Best Album Notes for his work on Aretha Franklin's Queen of Soul, The Atlantic Recordings.
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