Dave Laing obituary

Music writer, rock correspondent and academic who understood and communicated the cultural worth of popIn the early 1970s, a new kind of writing about popular music began to appear in Britain, alongside the music-industry journals and pop weeklies. Its instigators, mostly graduates in their 20s, had been inspired by university cultural studies courses and American magazines such as Rolling Stone to think and write about popular music as if it had things to say worth hearing, possessed cultural w