Kenneth Keith Downing Jr. is an English guitarist and a founding member of the heavy metal bands Judas Priest and KK's Priest.
Downing in 1980
Downing in 1984
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million 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, the band struggled with indifferent record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when their sixth studio album British Steel brought them notable mainstream attention.
Judas Priest at Wacken Open Air 2018
Judas Priest performing in 1981, during their World Wide Blitz Tour
Downing and Tipton performing in San Sebastián, Spain, during their Metal Conqueror Tour of 1984
Rob Halford in 1988. One of Priest's trademark stage stunts was to have Halford ride a motorbike on stage.