David Richards (record producer)

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David Richards is an English-born Swiss-based record producer, engineer and musician. In the Mountain Studios in Montreux, owned by the rock band Queen, and in Attalens he engineered and co-produced many albums by Queen, David Bowie and other artists. Richards also played keyboards on some records. He also deals with live music recording in such events as Montreux Jazz Festival.^[1]

[edit] Selected discography

Albums (co-)produced by David Richards:

Roger Taylor – Strange Frontier (1984)
Jimmy Nail – Take It or Leave It (1985; single: "Love Don't Live Here Anymore")
Feargal Sharkey – Feargal Sharkey (1985; single: "Loving You")
Queen – A Kind of Magic (1986)
Iggy Pop – Blah Blah Blah (1986)
Magnum – Vigilante (1986)
Virginia Wolf – Virginia Wolf (1986)
David Bowie – Never Let Me Down (1987)
The Cross – Shove It (1988)
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé – Barcelona (1988)
Queen – The Miracle (1989)
Queen – Innuendo (1991)
David Bowie – The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
David Bowie – Outside (1995)
Queen – Made in Heaven (1995)

Others:

Queen – Live Killers (1979; assistant engineer)
Yes – Going for the One (1977; assistant engineer)
Roger Taylor – Fun in Space (1981)
Queen – Live Magic (1986; recorded by Mack and Richards)
Brian May – Back to the Light (1992; engineer, recording, mixing: "Driven by You", "Last Horizon", "Just One Life")
Brian May – Another World (1998; additional recording: "Why Don't We Try Again"; mixing: "Another World")
Samael – Eternal (1999; recording, mixing)