Dave Richmond

Had things worked out differently, Dave Richmond might have been one of the better-known bassists to come out of the British Invasion. Not that he's done badly, anyway, but in 1963 he had the good luck to get in on the ground floor of one of the finest British pop/rock bands of the 1960s, when he became the bassist in what was then known as the Man-Hugg Blues Brothers, organized by Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg. That group, which eventually renamed themselves Manfred Mann, went on to generate six years' worth of generally superb and always fascinating recordings. But Richmond was...