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Dave Marsh, a longtime music critic who wrote several influential books about Bruce Springsteen, including the early biography "Born to Run," has died. He was 76.
Marsh died Friday in Connecticut, his friend Jeffrey St. Clair, a co-editor of the online magazine Counterpunch, told The Associated Press. St. Clair said Marsh had been suffering from a degenerative brain disease for several years. Jim Rotolo, the SiriusXM radio host, announced Marsh's death on his social media accounts.
Springsteen paid tribute to Marsh in an Instagram post, writing that the loss had left the band "heartbroken."
"My great friend Dave, with his straight out of Detroit attitude, was a true Rock 'n' Roll lifer. He was soulful, intelligent, heartfelt, opinionated, bruising and often fantastically argumentative," Springsteen wrote. "He deeply believed in what I was trying to accomplish and his lifetime of support meant the world to me."
Born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1950, Marsh dropped out of Detroit's Wayne State University in 1969 to write for the new rock magazine "Creem," where Lester Bangs was among his friends and mentors. Springsteen wasn't Marsh's only subject, but he was always close by. In 1979, he married Barbara Carr, who would go on to be Springsteen's co-manager alongside Landau for decades. The rocker even attended their wedding.