Darryl Read

Darryl Read
Darryl Read live at the White Trash Club, Berlin 2009
Background information
Birth name	Darryl Michael Roy Read
Born	19 September 1951 (1951-09-19) (age 60)
Genres	Punk rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock
Occupations	Poet, musician, singer, songwriter, writer, actor, film producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, drums
Years active	1963-present
Labels	Beat Kat Records, Cherry Red, White Label Records, Madstar Records, Lemon Records, Rpm Records (UK), Rock Chix Records
Associated acts	Crushed Butler, Tiger, Krayon Angels, The Orange Illusion, Dizzy, Snatch, The Hearts of Darkness, X T.Rex, The Nightriders, The Sharp Angles, Beat Existentialists
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
1969 Gibson SG Standard, USA Fender Stratocaster, Martin 00-5 acoustic guitar

Darryl Read (born 19 September 1951) is a British poet, singer, guitarist, drummer, actor, and writer. Read is among the forerunners of punk rock.^[1] According to 2008's Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk, his second band Crushed Butler "was, in many ways, Britain's first proto-punk band."^[2] In addition to his work with Crushed Butler, spanning from the group's founding in 1969 to is dissolution in 1971, Read played briefly with Krayon Angels (1968–1969) and has released a number of solo albums. He has collaborated in recording with such musicians as Bill Legend, Mickey Finn, and Ray Manzarek.

Read's involvement with film has included 1964's Daylight Robbery, for which Read won a Silver Lion medal award at the Venice Film Festival at the age of 14. He wrote a screenplay with Bernard White for the feature film Remember a Day, and also starred as Roger Bannerman, a character based on Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett.^[1][3][4] He acted on stage in two rock-based plays. In "Let the Good Stones Roll", which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival, he played Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. He was featured in "Bastard Angel", a play inspired by the band The Kinks. Read has also worked on television as an actor in many productions.^[5]

He published a book of poems called Set ^[1] in 1999, and in 2004 the biopic/novel entitled Stardom Road.^[1] Read currently does poetry readings and performs concerts internationally with his band Beat Existentialists.

Early years and career

His father Hedley Read (a television producer for CBC television) was a first assistant stage-hand and actor, and Darryl Michael Roy Read was born in Exeter, England during the tour of A Streetcar Named Desire. Read struggled at school (he was later diagnosed dyslexic) and after his parents divorced, he was brought up by his grandparents Paddy and Molly. Following his grandmother's death when he was seven years old, Read was sent to Parksisde Boarding School, in East Horsley. The new school did little to improve his academic achievements.

His mother got Read an audition for the Corona Academy for Dramatic Arts in Chiswick, west London and he was accepted. He left boarding school the following term in early 1963, coming top in most classes, as he had cheated in all of them to leave on a good note.

Corona Academy saw Read work professionally within two weeks of starting. His first role being 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 landed the lead part in the Children's Film Foundation film The Young Detectives, when he replaced the original actor who fell ill. He then played Dick in the 1964 film Five Have a Mystery to Solve, based on an Enid Blyton Famous Five book. Read was fortunate during filming, to take Enid round the film set, and was thrilled as her book had helped him to learn to read.

From his first term at Corona, Read worked constantly for the next five years. He got known as One Take Read on film sets, for his ability to get to do a scene in one take^[6] Read suffered from asthma and used an atomizer with Benzedrine which allegedly helped him focus and perform first takes. Read was also a fast learner and learned horse riding or anything that he was required to do for a film.

The same applied when he purchased a drum kit and a guitar at the age of 14. Though professionally successful at Corona, Read continued to suffer a disruptive home life with his mother and her partner. Read managed at times to live in lodgings near Corona with other students from the school. Out of his professional acting jobs he paid his way through school, and lodging bills and all living expenses.

Read left Corona 1968 with a string of professional film and TV acting credits under his belt including a Venice Film Festival award for his role in the Children's Film Foundation film Daylight Robbery. At 17 Read had become a Fabulous 208 magazine teenage pin up-star. Amongst the pupils during his time at Corona were: Mitch Mitchell who became drummer with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Richard O'Sullivan, Judy Geeson, Francesca Annis, Dennis Waterman and Michael Des Barres with whom in 1967 he formed the rock pop group The Orange Illusion, along with Nicholas Young and Kit Williams. The teen pop rock group were split up by the school's acting agent Hazel Malone in early 1968 who wanted the students to continue their acting careers. Michael Des Barres went later became lead singer with 70s Glam Rock group Silverhead.

Read appeared in a lead role in an episode of Dixon of Dock Green aired in late 1967 titled The Run, and due to readers requests Fabulous 208 magazine started to feature him regularly as a pin-up and write in-depth articles on him. Read gained a large following of female teenage fans, after further lead roles in The Lost Continent and Z-Cars. A fan club was formed for him by two teenage girls called Brenda and Stevie who came from Walworth, London, the club was publicized in Petticoat and Fabulous 208 magazines.

Proto Punk Rocker

In early 1968 Read ventured into the underground world of rock 'n' roll when a fan called Julia Smith turned him onto the Edgar Broughton Band and Mick Farren of The Deviants, whom he met on a couple of occasions. Read hung out with a woman called Nikki Johnson, who found him his first manager Robin Hemingway. Hemingway (sometimes known as the Cheetah) was a black hip hustler who had worked with T-Bone Walker, and turned Read onto soul music. Whilst trying to secure a record contact for him, Hemingway got demo time at Decca Studios, invited Read to a The Beatles session in Abbey Road studios, and once introduced him to Jimi Hendrix.

Read continued to switch between playing drums and guitar whilst continuing acting work. Read was asked by Emperor Rosko to form a group for his brother Jeff Pasternak. Read recruited Lou Martin and Stuart MacDonald members of Killing Floor blues band, and guitarist Chris Gibbons to form the Krayon Angels.

They played the Marquee Club and the Revolution Club and recorded a demo album. The group split in early 1969, when Jeff Pasternak and Chris Gibbons created a Simon & Garfunkel-type duo but performed poorly, Read gaving them the name Smooth Loser, which they later utilized as a rock band. The demo album Read made with Krayon Angels eventually was released in 1998, by Dig The Fuzz Records on vinyl as an archival works.

Out in the cold, and on the front cover of Fabulous 208 magazine, Read hooked up with an Edmonton-based black soul outfit called The Keith Locke Band, playing drums. Read was the only white player amongst Keith, Derrick Johnson and Rosko Gee, who went onto to become members of Bob Marley's band and Traffic. At this time Read also rehearsed with a classical rock trio in Pimlico, London, and after one rehearsal, came across Jesse Hector and Alan Butler, ex-Mods with hair to match, who arrived to rehearse without a drummer - they jammed and decided to work together, and inside eight weeks got backing and management from a Jewish East End market worker called Graham Breslau. Read came up with a band name Crushed Butler and they recorded a demo in Regent Sound Studios Studios in Denmark Street called It's My Life. The trio played their first gig at The Country Club, West Hampstead, where they blew the top band Osibisa off the stage with their ferociously aggressive, energetic, uptempo raw and improvised blend of rock and roll. Crushed Butler dressed in hand-cut slash neck red t-shirts, straight legged Levis with studded belts. Hector had short cropped hair with massive mutton chops, Butler had a crop cut centre parting hairdo and large sideburns, Read had a lions shag of dark hair and continually sported a black leather vintage motorcycle jacket, with a blue/white hooped t-shirt and Cuban heels. Altogether their image looked liked The Clash several years before The Clash formed, and Hectors voice sounded like John Lydon only in 1969.^[7] The trio didn't fit in with the conventional leftovers from the Flower Power scene, they were more as Read put it: "Council Estate Rock!" a foreboding of what was to come, only it would be called Punk.

Graham pulled in his friend an ex-boxer called Gerald Horgan who originally managed Cat Stevens to help manage the group. They recorded in EMI, Dick James Music DJM studios (where they were thrown out for being rude to the sound engineer and caught on a surveillance camera swearing about Harold Champagne a senior executive of the company), De Lane Lea studios (sessions came to an early end as the studio was beginning to get trashed with curry on the floor, Hector dancing on a grand piano, and drumsticks sticking in the new pegboard ceiling). They also recorded at Decca's West Hampstead studios, and Marquee Studios, but they failed to get a recording deal even though they were supporting major acts like Mott The Hoople, Atomic Rooster and UFO. The business simply refused to sign them, as Read once quoted in a record collector two-page spread article by Mark Paytress, "We were an incredible threat to the industry, they didn't want these young upstarts breaking into the scene and changing it!".^[7]

In under a year Graham pulled out of the management deal, and took all their equipment back, and Gerald Horgan remained friends with Read but couldn't do much to help further the group's career. The group changed their name to Tiger (the group) and went through a succession of bass players including ex-Smile bassist Barry Mitchell, and were managed by Neil Christian for a while. After recruiting Alan Butler back in to the group they worked together again and recorded High School Dropout at Marquee Studios. They finally split in 1971 after being continually turned down and out of work. Hector and Butler later in 1977 got punk success with their band The Hammersmith Gorillas, later shortened to The Gorillas.

Shadow Rock 'n' Roll

In 1971 Read was broke and disillusioned with the music business, and heavily into amphetamines and sleeping pills.^[8] He was given a job at Track Records by The Who's manager Chris Stamp as a songwriter and assistant to John Keen, also known as Speedy (who wrote the number one hit Something In The Air). Read started working with Terry Stamp and Jim Avery of pro-Castro activist rockers Third World War as a songwriter. Read recorded a demo track in 1972 with Terry Stamp at Regent Sound Studios called Razor City, and continued to work on-and-off with Terry and Jim up until 2000. In late 1972 Read joined ex-Silverhead guitarist Steve Forest, playing drums in Steve's Glam Rock trio called Dizzy. The bass player was Australian born Jenny Tutton, they played gigs at the Marquee Club and the Speakeasy Club. The band split when their manager ran out of money, and stopped backing the band - reclaiming equipment he paid for. Read got a gig as drummer and bandleader of a national UK number one theatrical tour of the tribal rock musical Hair. Read got Steve Forrest the job as lead guitarist, and they toured with the show for one year, Read had originally got the part of the Recruit in the show and was to be part of the Tribe, but realized he'd make more money if he played drums and became the bandleader.

In 1975 Read began pursuing a front man singer/guitarist career and continued to switch between music and acting and got a small song publishing deal with Famous Chapel. In early 1976 Read recorded songs at Polydor with Steve Forrest and Charlie Harty, including a track titled On The Streets Tonight. Again Read's songs and band were turned down again by Nick Mobs of EMI who said: "It wasn't funky enough!" Five months later Mobbs signed The Sex Pistols.

In 1977 Read did some stage shows, one playing Keith Richards in the premier production Let the Good Stones Roll. There were more television performances including a featured role in Rock Follies (1977)), Minder (1978) and was taken on by Tony Meehan to record five Read original tracks at Marcus studios, Bayswater, produced by Meehan, Jim Avery assisted in putting things together, and amongst the band members were Anthony Glynne and ex-Love Affair vocalist Gus Yeadon who played Hammond organ.

In 1980 Read landed a lead role in the premier production of the Royal Shakespeare production of Barrie Keeffe's play Bastard Angel and in the same year, recorded his first solo single Living on Borrowed Time/West End Girl produced by Ray Hendrikson at Scorpio Sounds studios, London.

Read left the music business in 1985 and moved to Spain. Whilst on a stop-off in Berlin, he started playing some bars and cafés and clubs, one being the Ex Und Pop punk club where he was rediscovered by Dimitri Leningrad, a hip impresario, who put him on the Berlin underground circuit as Darryl Read's Hearts of Darkness. This led to him recording a cover version of The Rolling Stones' Play With Fire, which became an underground hit and played on German airwaves for three months.^{[citation needed]} He signed a publishing deal with Peter Radzuhn and Tom Muller at Hansa Tone Studios who flew in Paul Thompson of Roxy Music to work with Read in the studio. The Hearts of Darkness now consisted of Read (lead vocals/guitar), Paul Thomson (drums), Volker Janssen (keyboards) and Graham Sears (bass). They recorded a mini album No Soul Through Midnight in 1986 and released a hard-edged unconventional B/W 16mm promo film titled No Place which featured Connover Farndon and ex-Stray Cats manager Tony Bidgood. Read directed the piece with Steve Ingle and other students from the British Film School.

Hollywood Underground

Unable to compromise with the acting industry, the music business or anything else that didn't spell freedom, Read reformed the Hearts Of Darkness and went to Hollywood, USA, with bassist Terry Wilde and a young Jewish manager called Scott Tarlow. Read was a friend of Ray Manzarek of The Doors, who put them on with him at a live show featuring many acts at The Arts Variety Centre Theatre, Hollywood. This led to them making an album titled Book Of The Dead on funds Tarlow mysteriously hustled from two Iranian backers. The band were off and straight into a downtown, South Central LA recording studio. Read collaborated again with Terry Stamp, who now lived in LA, on some of the song writing duties. They scraped, begged and borrowed and cut the album, and even got a large advertising poster board up on Sunset Strip outside Tower Records.

Some days the Hearts of Darkness were so broke they lived off happy hour snacks at La Express in Studio City, and drove around in a British hearse that Tarlow brought over with him, eventually hoping to make lots of cash – the hearse ended up selling for peanuts in a car auction. During this time Read and his group appeared in a low-budget B horror movie entitled Midnight for Mortica. By chance he was introduced to Gloria Jones and hung out with her discussing the possibilities of doing a film about Marc Bolan as Gloria's friend Robert Hyatt had written a script on Marc's life. Read moved in with a young woman for two years, who had previously been dating Phil Spector as Read heavily dug into LA's underground culture. Read eventually split with Wilde and Tarlow, after many disagreements and their sleight of hand with backing monies, and went solo.

Read started hanging out with a hip club Rockabilly group called The Mighty Hornets and jammed with them frequently at the Spice Club where they were the resident house group. Around this time he met John Entwistle of The Who, (the Who were Read's teen idols and somewhat inspiration), and jammed with him at the China Club; the jam was caught on video by the club's engineer as Read sung Townshend's I Cant' Explain. The Hornets and Read eventually made an album at Paramount Recording Studios in 1992 titled Beat Existentialist featuring Ray Manzarek on three tracks.

Poetical beginnings

Read returned to the UK to live, and commuted on-and-off back to Hollywood. In London Read joined Dino Dines and Miller Anderson ex T . Rex in 1994, to do shows featuring the works of Marc Bolan. Read had originally failed the audition for front man of what was to be called X T.Rex in 1994, but the musician they chose dropped out and Read was asked to join. The band were featured a week or two after, on Nationwide TV in a news spot.

After X T. Rex split, Read was introduced by Barry Smith (who ran a fan club for T. Rex) to Bill Legend of the original T.Rex. The two struck up a partnership - recording three records: Teenage Dream, Gods 'n' Angels and Walking in Shadows as Darryl Read and the Nightriders. Mickey Finn also of the original T. Rex joined them on recordings and some shows. The last being an all-star line-up including Zoot Money and Finn; the concert was filmed by a small crew at the 100 Club' in London'.

Bernard White (Syd Barrett aficionado) started to manage Read, and released his records on his White Label Records company. They went on to produce a promo film at the Roundhouse London with Gerald Horgan. The promo film was for "Teenage Dream", a Marc Bolan song) and "Hard on Love" Read's original composition. Read and The Nightriders continued for a while and did a television slot for the Live TV Television company.

In 1998 Dig the Fuzz Records released Crushed Butler 'Uncrushed' demos of Read's Proto Punk group who never got a deal, and changed Rock history over night. In 1999 White and Read wrote a screenplay for the low budget film production of Remember a Day and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd gave White the rights to the track of the same title to use for the drama based heavily on Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. The film also starred Zoot Money, Jamie Foreman, Peter Jenner and Jenny Fabian - the author of Groupie. The film became an underground success.

In the same year Ray Manzarek and Read released a poetry album with music titled: Freshly Dug the album was subsequently re-issued twice thereafter, once in 2005 on Cherryl Red label (Lemon Records) and in 2006 on the Madstar Records label for Germany. Read was inspired by Ray Manzarek to write a poetry book titled Set ^[1] illustrated by George Underwood in 1999, hardcover, and in 2000 in a paper back version.

In 2002 Read teamed up again with Dave Goodman the original producer and sound man for the Sex Pistols, with whom he had previously worked with on the film Remember A Day. The two set about recording a whole rock album in 10 days. Read wrote the majority of the songs in the studio daily, and Dave co-wrote three of the 10-track album which he produced. Read worked well with Goodman, and particularly liked the production of The Man Will Know Us When We Get There track. The album was titled: Shaved and got released later that year in Germany. Dave Goodman died in 2005 of a heart attack at his studio in Malta. In 2004 a hardcover limited edition of Stardom Road^[1] his biographical/novel was published.

Read continued to play concerts in Europe under the banner of Darryl Read's Beat Existentialists, and in 2007 released another poetry/music album with Ray Manzarek titled: Bleeding Paradise. In 2008 he filmed additional sequences in the UK for a new version of Remember A Day (distributed by Contemporary films UK) and guested regularly on Radio Eins Berlin, as DJ with his own Beat X Show. Currently Read is working with his group internationally in rock concerts and performs poetry readings. In 2009 Set^[1] was translated into German, and Colectomatic Volume 3 was released. And in the same year Teenage Dream along with the promo from the Roundhouse was re-issued.

In mid 2009 Read recorded a Mick Farren song titled: We Gotta Find Somewhere to Go the track will be featured in a forthcoming tribute album paying homage to the Pink Fairies and The Deviants, which will also feature the likes of The Damned, The Dead Kennedys, Wilko Johnson, The Only Ones. In mid November 2009 Crushed Butler Uncrushed was re-issued for the fourth time; this version on 12 inch vinyl with a new bonus track, was released worldwide by Heartbeat Radio Records NYC.

August 2010 Windian Records USA released Crushed Butler's Its My Life/My Sons Alive on vinyl, and on September 19, 2010 Read released his latest album: All The Ghosts of Rock 'n' Roll, produced by Italian/German producer Stephan Kroll.

On May 17, 2011, Read released a new single called Money Number One which was recorded in Thailand and produced by Barry Upton (known for work his with Steps). A promo video was filmed in Siam, Thailand to promote the Read/Upton composition.

Hardly of the same status of mainstream major rock contemporaries, but Read continues to be prolific as an artist, and something of a rock 'n' roll underground enigma, with a large portion of Beat poetry thrown in.

Filmography

• The Young Detectives (1963) as Moggs
• Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1964) as Dick
• Daylight Robbery (1964) as Darryl
• Son of the Sahara (1966) as Abu
• River Rivals (1967) as Ricky Holmes
• Great Catherine (1968) as Young Peter
• The Lost Continent (1968) as El Diablo
• Remember a Day (2000) as Roger Bannerman

Television

• "Five O'Clock Club" (2 episodes, 1964) aka Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club (UK: new title)
• "Theatre 625" The Seekers (1964) TV episode as French peasant Boy
• "Under Milk Wood" (BBC play 1964) as young Waldo
• "A Christmas Night with the Stars" (1 episode, 1964) - as featured, TV episode
• "The Flying Swan" as Michael (3 episodes, 1965) - The Contract (1965) TV episode as Michael - Lady in Waiting (1965) TV episode as Michael
• "A Tale of Two Cities" (3 episodes, 1965) TV episodes as Jerry Cruncher Jr.
• "Six" Andy's Game (1965) TV film as Malcolm
• "Our Man at St. Mark's" (1 episode, 1966) TV series as Peter
• "The Canterville Ghost" Mystery and Imagination (1966) TV episode as Stripe
• "Lost Hearts" Mystery and Imagination (1966) TV episode as Giovanni
• "Mrs Thursday" We Don't Pay London Prices (1967) TV episode as Boy
• "Dixon of Dock Green" (1 episode), The Run (1967) TV episode as Chris Conway
• "Half Hour Story" as Delivery boy (1 episode, 1967)
• "You and the World" as Tony (2 episodes, 1968)
• "The Saint" as French Student - The Ex-King of Diamonds (1 episode, 1969)
• "Z-Cars" as Tommy Jones (2 episodes, 1969)
• Fear or Favour: Part 1 (1969) TV episode as Tommy Jones
• Fear or Favour: Part 2 (1969) TV episode as Tommy Jones
• "Rock Follies of '77" as Punk Rock Group Drummer (1 episode 1977) - The Hype TV episode as Punk Rock Group Drummer
• "A Bunch of Fives" (1977) TV (2 episodes) as Ronnie
• "Minder" Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away (1979) TV episode as Billy
• "Mackenzie" (1980) TV series as Rory (2 episodes)

Stage

• Hair National UK tour as Drummer (1973)
• Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat as Benjamin at the Civic Theatre, Chelmsford (1975)
• Let The Good Stones Roll as Keith Richards Premier production at the Edinburgh Festival (1977)
• Teeth and Smiles as Inch at Wyndham's Theatre (1978)
• Bastard Angel as Steve, Premier production of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)

Discography

Singles/EPs

• Let the Good Stones Roll (vinyl EP) Clubland Records (1977)
• Living on Borrowed Time/West End Girl Monarch Records
• Play with Fire/Trouble in the House of Love Berlin Limited Edition Records (1985)
• No Soul Through Midnight 'No Soul Through Midnight' (12" vinyl EP) Aim Records (1986)
• Teenage Dream Darryl Read and the Nightriders, (CD EP) White Label Records (1994)
• Walking In Shadows (CD EP) White Label Records (1995)
• Gods 'n' Angels (CD EP) White Label Records (1996)
• Maybe It's Good If You Look At It Twice Darryl Read & The Doctors, 'Poet House' (EP) Deep Bass Records Spain (2006)
• Stepping Ace Roadhouse (digital download EP) Beat Kat Records Germany (2008)
• Teenage Dream (digital download re-issue) Beat Kat Records Germany (2009)
• It's My Life /My Son's Alive Crushed Butler, (12" vinyl) Windian Records USA (2010)
• Razor City Terry Stamp & Darryl Read, (digital download) Beat Kat Records 006 Germany (2011)
• Money No 1 Darryl Read, (digital download) Beat Kat Records 007 Thailand (2011)

Albums

• Book of the Dead (CD), USA Bardo Records (1989)
• Beat Existentialist (CD), Rock Chix Records (1993)
• Colectomatic Volume 1 (CD), White Label Records (1997)
• Book of the Dead (CD reissue with bonus tracks) White Label Records UK
• Uncrushed Crushed Butler (10" vinyl), Dig The Fuzz Records UK (1998)
• Freshly Dug Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read (CD), Ozit/Morpheus Records (1999)
• Nineteen Sixty Nine Krayon Angels (12" vinyl), Dig The Fuzz Records UK (2000)
• Shaved (CD) Madstar Records Germany (2002)
• Freshly Dug (Freshly Re-Dug reissue) Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read, Madstar Records Germany (2005)
• Bleeding Paradise Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read, Beat Kat Records Germany (2007)
• Colectomatic Volume 2 (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2009)
• 'Crushed Butler' 'Uncrushed' (12" vinyl) Radio Heartbeat Records USA (2009)
• Colectomatic Volume 3 (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2010)
• All The Ghosts of Rock 'n' Roll (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2010)
• Portobello Shuffle (tribute to Boss Goodman/Deviants & Pink Fairies) compilation Easy Action Records UK (2010)

Further reading

• Read, Darryl (1999). Set: Selected Poems by Darryl Read. George Underwood, Illustrations. Behind the Beat Publications. ISBN 0953706001. 
• Read, Darryl (2004). Stardom Road by Darryl Read. Behind the Beat Publications. ISBN 095370601X. 
• Read, Darryl (2010). Set: Selected Poems by Darryl Read (German Translation). George Underwood, Illustrations. Behind the Beat Publications UK. ISBN 97809537060. 
• Read, Darryl (2011). Bleeding Paradise selected poetry (German/English Translation). Behind the Beat Publications UK. ISBN 9780953706044. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Heibutzki, Ralph. "Darryl Read Biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p413591. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
2. ^ Strongman, Phil (2008). Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk. Cappella Books (illustrated ed.). Chicago Review Press. p. 52. ISBN 1556527527. 
3. ^ "Daylight Robbery awards". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057995/awards. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
4. ^ "Remember a Day (2000)". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279367/. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
5. ^ "Darryl Read". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713817/. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
6. ^ Read, Darryl (1999). Stardom Road (1st ed.). Behind The Beat Publications. p. 65. ISBN 095370601X. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Pretty Vacant by Mark Paytress, Record Collector issue 226, June 1998
8. ^ Read, Darryl (2004). Stardom Road by Darryl Read. Behind the Beat Publications. ISBN 095370601X. 

External links

• Darryl Read Official website
• Darryl Read Official facebook page
• Darryl Read at the Internet Movie Database
• Darryl Read at Allmusic
• Crushed Butler Official Site

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Name	Read, Darryl
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Date of birth	19 September 1951
Place of birth	Exeter, England
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