Leah photographed here with Richie backstage at Soundwave music Festival.

Richard Ian Faulkner (born 1 January 1980), is an English musician best known as one of the lead guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest since 2011, replacing original member K. K. Downing. Faulkner has also performed with Lauren Harris, Christopher Lee, Voodoo Six, Dirty Deeds, and Ace Mafia.

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in 1969. They have sold over 50 million copies of their albums, and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, in 1980, they rose to commercial success with the album British Steel.