b. Michael Campbell, 4 June 1954, Port Antonio, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 15 March 2008, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. Dread achieved prominence in Jamaica in the late 70s as a DJ on the JBC station with his four-hour Saturday night Dread At The Controls show. Campbell's show played exclusively reggae (bizarrely, until the rise of IRIE FM, most official Jamaican radio stations played anything but reggae). His selections - many of them hot off the cutting lathe, dub plate specials - were punctuated by wild sound effects and suitably manic utterances. This made him a hero to the grassroots audience, but put him at odds with fellow broadcasters and the conservative JBC directorship, leading to his resignation in 1979. He had already entered the recording business with DJ sides such as "Dread At The Controls" and "Home Gard" for Lee Perry, and "Roots Man Revival" for Sonia Pottinger's High Note label. After a brief spell as an engineer for Treasure Isle studio, he formed a working relationship with producer Carlton Patterson, for whom he cut "Barber Saloon" and helped to produce Ray I's popular "Weatherman Skank".

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