b. 1 May 1970, Stamford Hill, London, England. Guitarist Bernard Butler studied violin and piano before rising to fame with Suede as the perceived inheritor of Johnny Marr's mantle as the guitar player of the 90s. Indeed, he had first learnt the instrument by playing along to Smiths records. As a 13-year-old, Butler formed his first band, Slowdive (nothing to do with the Creation Records outfit of the same name), with his brothers. It lasted only a short time, and by his mid-teens he was subsidizing his bedroom study of guitar with part-time work. After failing his first-year history exams at London's Queen Mary College, he joined Suede in 1989, answering an advertisement in the New Musical Express. Butler wrote all the band's music and provided the perfect antidote to Brett Anderson's mannered vocals and lyrics, until his acrimonious departure in June 1994. By that time he had secured a reputation for being the least forthcoming and most antagonistic member of a band judged to be one of the greatest hopes for the UK's pop future, while also being lauded as a brilliant, original guitarist.

Listen to Bernard Butler at Finetune.

• (1999)  Friends and Lovers
• (1998)  People Move On

• Not Alone
• Stay
• Friends & Lovers
• Woman I Know
• A Change Of Heart

• The Verve
• Travis
• Radiohead
• Ian Brown
• Oasis
• Coldplay
• Blur
• Stereophonics
• Kula Shaker
• The London Suede
• Manic Street Preachers
• Pulp
• The Stone Roses
• Snow Patrol
• Primal Scream
• Gomez
• The Smiths
• Belle And Sebastian
• The Charlatans U.K.
• James

• starocker
• Kaorie
• Mycroft
• Melville
• dazzlr