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Dave Marsh

American music critic and radio talk show host (1950–2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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David Rodney Marsh was an American music critic and radio talk show host. He was an early editor of Creem magazine, wrote for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on rock music. He was also a committee member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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“Dave Marsh” enters the record as american music critic and radio talk show host (1950–2026). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dave, Marsh and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dave Marsh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.