David William Laing was an English writer, editor, and broadcaster, specialising in the history and development of pop and rock music. He was a research fellow at the universities of Westminster and Liverpool.

The Da Capo Companion To 20th-century Popular Music
1995

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Media, Industry, Society
2003
ISBN 9781847144737
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2
2003
ISBN 9781847144720
Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industry
2020
ISBN 9781789382532