Paul Young (Sad Café)

This article is about the former Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics singer. For another British singer of the same name, see Paul Young. For other persons named Paul Young, see Paul Young (disambiguation).

Paul Young (17 June 1947 – July 15, 2000) was a singer and percussionist who worked with several successful bands, including Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics. He was affectionately nicknamed "Youngy" by his Mechanics bandmates Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack (likely to avoid confusion with Carrack and the solo blue-eyed soul singer Paul Young, whose voice was similar to the late Young's).

Paul Young was born in Benchill, Manchester, England.

He died from a heart attack on July 15, 2000.