Bradley in the Twilight zone.

Twilight has turned a spotlight on North Vancouver singer-songwriter Sam Bradley, thanks in part to his boyhood friendship with actor Robert Pattinson, who plays the hit movie's lead vampire.North Vancouver's Sam Bradley, a childhood friend of star Robert Pattinson, has a tune on the movie Twilight's soundtrack.Bradley and Pattinson wrote the song "Never Think" together, and Bradley is now reaping the benefits after Pattinson's recording of the song was included on the movie's mega-selling soundtrack CD."What it does for me is, I'm going to be able to get a publishing deal," says the 22-year-old Bradley, who moved with his mother and sister from Britain to North Van when he was 17. "I'm going to be able to fund my own album. It's a big deal, the fact that the soundtrack went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, that really works in my favour."Pattinson and Bradley became friends as 12-year-old schoolboys in London's Hammersmith area, staying in touch as Pattinson's acting career took off and Bradley moved to Canada. Bradley joined his friend in Los Angeles earlier this month for Twilight's premiere screening."It was pretty crazy, late-night car chases, paparazzi. Robert is just huge there, it's ridiculous," Bradley says.The movie, based on Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular novel about a small-town high school girl who falls in love with a vampire classmate, stars Kristen Stewart alongside Pattinson. Word that the novel was being made into a movie drew feverish attention from Twilight fans long before the movie was even finished, and police have been called out to control the fan hysteria at some of Pattinson's public appearances.Bradley, who stayed with Pattinson at the actor's London apartment for six months last year, has had a front-row seat at his pal's career rise. Bradley was in England four years ago when Pattinson was cast as doomed wizard Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a small sample of what was to come, as it turned out."I'd never heard of Twilight and neither had he," says Bradley. "He told me as soon as he got it. He was just concentrating on making it as good as he could. What he said mostly was that he was going to be closer to Vancouver."Twilight filmed in rural Oregon earlier this year and Pattinson visited his friend in Vancouver during filming breaks. The two wrote the song together a year ago, and Bradley has 25 other songs he plans to record at North Vancouver's Baker Street studios. But first he'll head to London for 10 days next month to visit old friends and to attend Twilight's U.K. premiere."It's bizarre, but we kind of all planned it, this was our idea," says Bradley of the small group of school friends that also includes rising British actor Tom Sturridge. "It was our idea that they would be making movies and I would be making music. So when Twilight happened, it was kind of like, oh, it's starting."Bradley has put together a band with some Canadian musicians -- they're playing a New Year's Eve gig at Sailor Hagar's pub in North Vancouver.



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