Richmond first picked up the
ukulele at the age of 14. He later picked up the bass after hearing "
Big Noise From Winnetka" on a
record player owned by his older brother. Richmond left the band in 1964, shortly after he recorded bass for their first hit single "
5-4-3-2-1", the theme song for the
ITV music show
Ready, Steady, Go!. He was replaced by
Tom McGuinness. Richmond later became a session player,—the first foreign-language song to top the charts there—and also reached number one in Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland that year. He later played bass on Gainsbourg's 1971 album
Histoire de Melody Nelson. Richmond also worked with
Elton John,
Marvin, Welch & Farrar,
Olivia Newton-John,
Dusty Springfield,
Cilla Black and
the Shadows, amongst others. Richmond played the
fretless bass guitar on the theme song to
Last of the Summer Wine. In his later years, he re-entered the world of
jazz and
big band music, performing with
the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra and the String of Pearls Orchestra. == Discography ==