Few guitarists from the Britpop era had a trajectory quite like Richard Oakes’. For one, he came into Suede, who had two hit-and-miss albums in 1993’s Suede and 1994’s Dog Man Star, as a replacement for Bernard Butler, a six-stringer widely regarded as the finest of his era.
So, there was that… and the fact that when he entered the fold, he was just 18. Oh, and despite the quality of Suede’s records, critics kinda, sorta hated them.
