David Henry Richmond (born 29 March 1938 in Brighton, Sussex, England) is a British professional bass player, best known as a founder member of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann.
[2] He later picked up the bass after hearing "Big Noise From Winnetka" on a record player, owned by his older brother.
[2] Probably the most famous song that features Richmond on bass guitar is the 1969 version of Je t'aime... moi non plus by its composer Serge Gainsbourg and his then girlfriend Jane Birkin, and the song became a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1969 (it was also notable for being the first foreign-language song that managed to top the UK singles chart) as well as topping the charts in Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland that year.
[3] Richmond left the band in 1964, shortly after he recorded bass for their track "5-4-3-2-1", a song intended as the theme for the music show Ready, Steady, Go!, which became one of Manfred Mann's earliest and biggest hits.
Later on in his career, Richmond became a session player, working with musicians such as Elton John, Bread, Hank Marvin and Serge Gainsbourg, amongst many others.