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Richard Ian Faulkner, born 1 January 1980, is an English musician. He has been the lead guitarist for Judas Priest’s heavy metal band since 2011. K. K. Downing was replaced by Faulkner. Faulkner has performed with Lauren Harris and Christopher Lee, Voodoo Six as well as Dirty Deeds and Ace Mafia.
Faulkner was born and raised in London. He lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where he worked in sausage selling between 1995 and 2000. While living there, he learned Swedish.
On 20 April 2011, Faulkner was appointed as the successor of guitarist K. K. Downing in heavy metal band Judas Priest. A mutual friend, guitarist Pete Friesen, recommended him to the band. Friesen and Faulkner had played together in a cover band in London called Metalworks, which coincidentally is also the title of a Judas Priest compilation released in 1993. They called him on a wrong phone number, so they sent him two emails. Faulkner thought they were junk mail, so he deleted them. The band began to track him down and eventually got his real phone number. When Faulkner got a call from the band’s management, he thought it was a joke. He went to Glenn Tipton’s house the next day to meet him and Rob Halford was present as well. They had a discussion and Faulkner played a few pieces for them. They sent him a few tracks because they wanted to hear what he would play on those tracks on the solos, and they went from there. Faulkner returned about a week later and they offered him the gig. He kept it a secret for a month until the official announcement.
