Darryl Read
| Darryl Read | |
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Darryl Read live at the White Trash Club, Berlin 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Darryl Michael Roy Read |
| Born |
19 September 1951 Exeter, Devon, England |
| Died | 23 June 2013 (aged 61) Pattaya, Thailand |
| Genres | Punk rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, musician, singer, songwriter, writer, actor, film producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, drums |
| Years active | 1963–2013 |
| Labels | Beat Kat Records, Cherry Red, White Label Records, Madstar Records, Lemon Records, Rpm Records (UK), Rock Chix Records |
| Associated acts | Crushed Butler, Tiger, The Hearts of Darkness, Beat Existentialists |
| Notable instruments | |
| 1969 Gibson SG Standard, USA , Martin 00-5 acoustic guitar | |
Darryl Michael Roy Read (19 September 1951 – 23 June 2013) was a British singer, guitarist, drummer, actor, poet and writer. In the late 1960s, Read was a member of Crushed Butler, considered by some to be amongst the forerunners of punk rock. He collaborated with musicians such as Bill Legend, Mickey Finn and Ray Manzarek.
Read appeared as a child actor in a number of films, including, aged 14, in Daylight Robbery (1964), for which he won a Silver medal for best actor at the Venice Film Festival. He also appeared on stage in two rock-based plays and a number of television programmes. He was a published author of poetry as well as a biographical novel.
Read was killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand in 2013.
Read was born in Exeter, where his father Hedley Read was working on a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Read struggled at school (he was later diagnosed dyslexic) and following his parents divorce, he lived with his grandparents. Following his grandmother's death when he was seven years old, Read was sent to Parkside Boarding School, in East Horsley.
Read attended an audition at the Corona Academy for Dramatic Arts in Chiswick, west London, and he was accepted. He left boarding school the following term in early 1963. Within two weeks of joining Corona Academy Read worked professionally, with a background role on the 1963 film The V.I.P.s. The following week he featured in a Persil commercial. By the end of his first term, he appeared in the Children's Film Foundation film The Young Detectives, replacing the original actor who had fallen ill. He then played Dick in the 1964 film Five Have a Mystery to Solve, based on an Enid Blyton Famous Five book.
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