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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 Lion medal award at the Venice Film Festival. He also appeared on stage in two rock-based plays and a number of television programmes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Darryl Read )〕 He was a published author of poetry as well as a biographical novel. Read was killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand in 2013. ==Early years and career== 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. He left Corona in 1968 with a small number of film and TV acting credits under his belt including a Venice Film Festival award for his role in the film ''Daylight Robbery''. At 17 Read appeared in ''Fabulous 208'', a teenage magazine. Read had being playing the drums and the guitar at the age of 14, and with Michael Des Barres he formed the rock pop group the Orange Illusion in 1967. Read also appeared in a 1967 episode of ''Dixon of Dock Green'', the 1968 film ''The Lost Continent'' and a 1969 episode of ''Z-Cars''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Darryl Read」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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