Darryl Read

Quick Facts

Full Name	Darryl Read
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1951(1951-09-19)
Age	73
Date Of Death	June 23, 2013, Pattaya City, Thailand
Birthplace	Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Darryl Read Biography

Darryl Read is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on September 19, 1951 in Exeter, England, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Darryl Read Net Worth

Darryl Read is one of the richest Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Darryl Read 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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.

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In 1971 Read was struggling financially and heavily using amphetamines and sleeping pills. He started working at Track Records as a songwriter and assistant to John “Speedy” Keen. Read also worked with Terry Stamp and Jim Avery of pro-Castro activist rockers Third World War as a songwriter. In 1972 Read recorded a demo track, ‘Razor City’, with Terry Stamp and continued to work on-and-off with Stamp and Avery until 2000.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Darryl Read celebrates birthday on September 19 of every year.

In late 1972 Read joined ex-Silverhead guitarist Steve Forest, playing drums in a glam rock trio called Dizzy. The band split after their manager ran out of money, and stopped backing the band – reclaiming equipment he paid for. At the end of the summer of 1972, Read joined singer/lead-guitarist Barry Pyatt at Butlin’s in Bognor Regis, in a cabaret combo by the name of “Sugar and Spice”. In 1972 Read joined as drummer the theatrical tour of 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 realised he’d make more money if he played drums and became the bandleader.