Lloyd Bradley

Lloyd Bradley (born 1955 September 20th) is a British music writer.

Born in London, Bradley discovered Jamaican music in his teenage years, while going out in the North London based sound systems and created his own named Dark Star System in the end of the sixties.

He worked on several in their early years Q Magazine and Empire for Emap Metro and launched Big! for that company. Together with Mat Snow he developed Maxim for Dennis Publishing, and worked on the launch of Encore magazine in 1994 for Haymarket and then joined GQ as an editor, moving in 2003 to US company Rodale as an Editorial Consultant on Men's Health and Runner's World magazines. He is currently a freelance journalist and consultant for many titles, and is developing a series of international city running guides and health and fitness books. He is also working on a biography of George Clinton, that sets P-Funk in its correct socio-political context. His journalistic contributions have been published in NME, Black Music Magazine, The Guardian, and Mojo among others... Bass Culture is considered as one of the most important books on reggae music, and he was Associate Producer of the BBC2 Series Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music. Lloyd Bradley is also classically trained chef.

Bibliography

• Rock Year Book Vol 9, 1988, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-86369-278-8
• Rock Yearbook, 1989, St Martin's Press, UK, ISBN 0-312-02134-8
• Soul on Cd: The Essential Guide, 1994, Kyle Cathie Ltd, UK, ISBN 1-85626-162-X
• Reggae on Cd: The Essential Guide, 1996 for the first edition, Trafalgar Square Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-85626-177-8
• Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1999, London Bridge, UK, ISBN 1-85410-657-0
• Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music, photographies by Dennis Morris, 2001, BBC Books, UK, ISBN 0-563-48807-7
• "The Rough Guide To Running", 2007, Rough Guide, ISBN 978-1-84353-909-4
• "The Rough Guide to Men's Health", 2009, Rough Guide, ISBN 978-1-84836-004-4

Same book under different versions:

• UK: Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King, 2001 for the UK version, Penguin Books Ltd, UK, ISBN 0-14-023763-1
• USA: This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music, 2001 for the US version, Grove Press , USA, ISBN 0-8021-3828-4
• France: Bass Culture: Quand le Reggae était roi, translation Manuel Rabasse, 2005 for the French version, Editions Allia, France, ISBN 2-84485-174-6
• Germany: Bass Culture Der Siegeszug des Reggae, Hanibal ISBN 3-85445-209-8
• Japan: Bass Culture, Shinko, ISBN 978-4-401-63145-2
• Italy: Bass Culture La Musica dalla Giamaica:ska, rocksteady, roots reggae, dub & dancehall, Shake Edizioni, 978-88-88865-68-3