David Young

David Justin Young (2 May 1949 – 31 August 2022) was an English musician, record producer and audio engineer best known for his playing with the John Cale Band in the 1980s and collaborating with the German rock band Element of Crime for 35 years.

Career Young started his career in the 1970s. He was one of the three audio engineers on David Bowie's Diamond Dogs North American Tour in 1974. He also worked with Duke Ellington.

In 1982, he started working with John Cale, initially as an audio engineer (along with David Lichtenstein) on what would become the Music for a New Society studio 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 Artificial Intelligence (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 Ollie Halsall joined) switching from guitar to bass guitar.

In 1987, he engineered the Cale-produced second studio album by the German rock band Element of Crime 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), Mittelpunkt der Welt (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.

Young died on 31 August 2022 in a hospital in England at the age of 73.