Marsh's most recent book, 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story - Legends and Legacy, was released in October 2012.

He has also worked for Newsday and The Real Paper. Marsh contributed to the 1994 book Mid-Life Confidential, a book about and by the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed of American authors.

The newsletter has since been renamed Rock and Rap Confidential. Marsh has edited and contributed to Rock and Roll Confidential, a newsletter about rock music and social issues. Marsh is also closely associated with Jon Landau, a Springsteen manager and producer. Marsh is closely associated with Springsteen because his wife, Barbara Carr, is one of Springsteen's co-managers. Some of these became bestsellers, including Born to Run and Glory Days. Marsh has published four books about singer/musician Bruce Springsteen. Marsh has at times courted controversy with his style of maintaining selections. He has written extensively about his favorite artists, including Marvin Gaye, whose song ' I Heard It Through the Grapevine' he chose as the number one single of all-time in his book The Heart of Rock and Soul: the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, and Sly Stone, whom he called 'one of the greatest musical adventurers rock has ever known.'Īlong with Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner, Marsh has been involved in organizing and maintaining the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. While supportive of punk music in general, he said in a 2001 interview that 'I don't know that it was any more important than disco,' and believes rap is more significant than punk in the history of rock music. Marsh is credited with coining the term punk rock in a 1971 article he wrote about Question Mark & the Mysterians. At Creem, he was mentored by close friend and colleague Lester Bangs. He began his career as a rock critic and editor at Creem magazine, which he helped start. He then briefly attended Wayne State University in Detroit. He graduated from Waterford Kettering High School in Waterford, Michigan in 1968.

The Book of Rock Lists by Dave Marsh