David Justin Young (2 May 1949 – 31 August 2022) was an English musician, record producer and sound engineer best known for his playing with the John Cale Band in the 1980s and collaborating with the German band

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for 35 years.

Career

Young started his career in the 1970s. He was one of the three sound engineers on

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's Diamond Dogs North American Tour in 1974. He also worked with Duke Ellington. In 1982, he started working with John Cale, initially as a sound engineer (along with

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) on what would become the '' Music for a New Society'' album. He also plays guitar on some songs and joined his live band as a full member soon after. He then played on two more studio albums, '' Caribbean Sunset'' (1984) and ''

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'' (1985), the latter of which he also co-produced, as well as two live albums, '' Comes Alive'' (1984) and '' Live at Rockpalast'' (recorded 1984, released 2010). He stayed with Cale's band until the end of 1985, in the later period (after

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joined) switching from guitar to bass. Although he left Cale's live band, they continued to work together in the studio. In 1987, Young produced and engineered some

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recordings (including "24 Hour Party People" and "Wah Wah (Think Tank)") off their debut album, mainly produced by Cale. In 1990, he played on and engineered Cale's album '' Wrong Way Up'' and later produced the ' (1996) album by Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses with Cale. In 1987, he engineered the Cale-produced second album by the German rock band

called '. He then went on to produce their subsequent albums ''Freedom, Love & Happiness'' (1988), ''The Ballad of Jimmy & Johnny'' (1989), ''Crime Pays'' (1990), ''Damals hinterm Mond'' (1991), ''Weißes Papier'' (1993), ''An einem Sonntag im Apri'' (1994), ''Die schönen Rosen'' (1996), ''Psycho'' (1999), ''Romantik'' (2001), ' (2005), ''Immer da wo du bist bin ich nie'' (2009) and ' (2014). From the beginning of the 1990s he also played with them live as a guitarist and in 2002 he joined them as a regular bassist. He left the band due to ill health in June 2022, just a few months before he died, and was replaced by Markus Runzheimer. Young died on 31 August 2022 in a hospital in England at the age of 73.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, David English rock guitarists English record producers English audio engineers Musicians from London 1949 births 2022 deaths