Young met Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie when they were both studying at King's Park Secondary School in Glasgow, and he joined the band in 1984.
After the album was released, guitarist Jim Beattie left the band and Young took over that role.
[4] Young was found dead in his flat in Hove, East Sussex on the afternoon of 9 September 2014.
[6][7] Primal Scream's Gillespie and Andrew Innes wrote: We have lost our comrade and brother Robert Young.
In the words of Johnny Marr, "Throb with a gold top Les Paul – unbeatable".
However, Alan McGee, who was a manager for Primal Scream, has suggested that it was a result of drug or alcohol abuse: He was the wildest of them all and he was the strongest so it's ironic that we all ended up sober and he fought his demons.