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 proto punk and punk rock. He collaborated with musicians such as Bill Legend, Mickey Finn and

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. 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

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. 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

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. Read was killed in a motorcycle incident in

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in 2013.

Early years and career

Read was born in

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, where his father Hedley Read was working on a stage production of ''

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''. Read struggled at school (he was later diagnosed

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) 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.The establishment has moved location, and is now known as Parkside School, Cobham. Read attended an audition at the Corona Academy for Dramatic Arts in

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, 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

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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

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Famous Five book. He left Corona in 1968 with a small number of film and TV acting credits under his belt including a

award for his role in the film '' Daylight Robbery''. At 17 Read appeared in '' Fabulous 208'', a teenage magazine. Read had been 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 ''

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'', the 1968 film '' The Lost Continent'' and a 1969 episode of ''

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''.

Late 1960s bands

In early 1968 Read became interested in the

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and

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of the Deviants. Read's then girlfriend, Nikki Johnson, found him his first manager, Robin Hemingway. Hemingway had worked with

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and introduced Read to

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. Whilst trying to secure a record contract for Read, Hemingway got Read to record demos at

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, as well as inviting him to a Beatles session at Abbey Road Studios, and introduced him to Jimi Hendrix. Read continued to switch between playing drums and guitar whilst continuing acting work. Read was asked by

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to form a group for his brother Jeff Pasternak from American west coast

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band The Pasternak Progress. The Pasternak Progress named after Jeff's surname "Pasternak", released one rare single "Cotton Soul" b/w "Flower Eyes" in 1967. Read recruited Lou Martin and Stuart MacDonald, members of blues outfit Killing Floor, and guitarist Chris Gibbons to form The Krayon Angels. They played in London and recorded a demo album but the group split in early 1969, when Jeff Pasternak and Chris Gibbons created a

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-type duo. Read did another album demo for them and gave them the name Smooth Loser, which they later utilised as a rock band. The demo album Read made with Krayon Angels was eventually released in 2000 on Dig The Fuzz Records. Read joined an

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-based soul outfit called the Keith Locke Band, playing drums. Read was the only white player amongst Locke, Derrick Johnson and Rosko Gee, who went on to become members of

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's band and

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. At this time Read also rehearsed with a rock trio in

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, London, and after one rehearsal, came across

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and Alan Butler, ex- mods who arrived to rehearse without a drummer – they jammed and decided to work together,''Maximum Rock 'n' Roll'', Issue 189 and inside eight weeks got backing and management from an

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market worker called Graham Breslau. Read came up with a band name - Crushed Butler - and they recorded a demo at Regent Sound Studios in

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called 'It's My Life'. The trio played their first gig at the Country Club, West Hampstead, supporting

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. Crushed Butler dressed in hand-cut slash neck red T-shirts, straight legged Levis jeans 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 lion's shag of dark hair and continually sported a black leather vintage motorbike jacket, with a blue/white hooped T-shirt and

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. Altogether their image looked liked

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several years before the Clash formed, and Hector's voice sounded like

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, only in 1969."Pretty Vacant" by Mark Paytress, ''

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'' issue 226, June 1998 Breslau pulled in his friend, Gerald Horgan to help manage the group. They recorded at EMI, Dick James Music DJM studios and De Lane Lea studios. They also recorded at Decca's

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studios and Marquee Studios, but they failed to get a recording deal even though they were supporting major acts like

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and UFO. Within a year Breslau pulled out of the management deal, and took all their equipment back, and though Gerald Horgan remained friends with Read he couldn't do much to help further the group's career. The group changed their name to 'Tiger' and went through a succession of bass players including ex-

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bassist Barry Wyles, and were managed by

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for a while. After recruiting Alan Butler back into 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 found success with their band

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, later shortened to the Gorillas in

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1970s to mid-1980s

In 1971 Read was struggling financially and heavily using

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s and sleeping pills. He started working at Track Records as a songwriter and assistant to

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. Read also worked with Terry Stamp and Jim Avery of pro-

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activist proto punk

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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. In late 1972, Read joined ex- Silverhead guitarist Steve Forest, playing drums in a

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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

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, in a

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combo by the name of "Sugar and Spice". In 1972 Read joined as drummer the theatrical tour of rock musical '' Hair''. Read got Steve Forest 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. In 1975, Read began pursuing a front man singer/guitarist career and continued to switch between music and acting and got a song publishing deal with Famous Chapel. In early 1976 Read recorded songs at

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with Steve Forest 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

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. In 1977, Read played

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in the stage production of ''Let the Good Stones Roll''. There were more television performances including a featured role in '' Rock Follies'', '' Minder'' and Read taken on by

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to record five of his own penned tracks. In 1980 Read landed a role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Barrie Keeffe's play ''Bastard Angel'', and in the same year, he recorded his first solo single 'Living on Borrowed Time'/'West End Girl' produced by Ray Hendrikson. Read moved to

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in 1985 but whilst on a stop-off in

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, he started playing some bars, cafés and clubs, one being the Ex Und Pop punk club where he was rediscovered by Dimitri Leningrad, who put him on the Berlin underground circuit as 'Darryl Read's Hearts of Darkness'. This led to Read recording a cover version of

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' "Play With Fire", which became an underground hit and played on German radio for three months. He signed a publishing deal with Peter Radzuhn and Tom Muller at Hansa Tone Studios who flew in

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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 16mm promo film titled ''No Place'' which featured Connover Farndon and ex-

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manager Tony Bidgood. Read directed the piece with Steve Ingle and other students from the British Film School.

California

Read was recruited by Terence Pearce (aka Terence Wilde/Terry Wilde) to replace singer Paul Roberts in the band High Frontier in London, after Roberts left to join The Stranglers. High Frontier had American shows planned when the band broke up, but Pearce decided to go anyway. He and Read flew to Los Angeles in 1987, picked up various musicians in Hollywood, where they began writing and recording the album Book of the Dead under the name The Hearts of Darkness. They were at that time managed by Scott Tarlow (later known as Justin Marquis, singer of the band The Veil). Read was a friend of

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. When The Hearts of Darkness were booked to play a show at the historic Variety Arts Centre Theatre, Downtown L.A., Manzarek asked if he could play keyboards at the gig, which he did. Whilst making the album 'Book of the Dead' Ray Manzarek listened and advised with Reed and Pearce in the studio. Read collaborated again with Terry Stamp, who now lived in Los Angeles, on some of the song writing duties. During this time Read and the other Hearts of Darkness members appeared in a low-budget B horror film entitled ''Midnight for Mortica''. By chance he was introduced to Gloria Jones and discussed the possibility of doing a film about

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as Jones's friend Robert Hyatt had written a script on Bolan's life. Despite critical success in America with The Hearts of Darkness, Read argued with Pearce & Tarlow over writing credits and money and eventually split from Pearce and Tarlow (who went on to form the band The Veil) and returned to Europe. Read started playing with a

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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

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, and jammed with him at the China Club; the jam was caught on video by the club's engineer as Read sung "I Can't Explain". The Hornets and Read eventually made an album at Paramount Recording Studios in 1992 titled ''Beat Existentialist'' featuring

on three tracks.

Later career

Read returned to live in London and joined Dino Dines and Miller Anderson (ex

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) in 1994, to do shows as X T. Rex, featuring the works of

. After X T. Rex split, Read was introduced by Barry Smith to Bill Legend of the original

. 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 the recordings and some shows, the last being an all-star line-up including

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and Finn; the concert was filmed at the 100 Club in London. Bernard White then managed Read, and released his records on his White Label Records company. They went on to produce a promo film at

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, London with Gerald Horgan. The promo film was for "

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", a

song, and "Hard on Love", Read's original composition. The video for Teenage Dream was produced, directed and edited by Spyros Melaris who's next project was the infamous 'Alien Autopsy' footage. Melaris came up with the concept for the promo and worked very closely with Read to create a little bit of 'Rock History' by filming in the legendary 'Roundhouse'. Read and the Nightriders continued for a while and did a television slot for the Live TV Television company.

Crushed Butler recordings

In 1998, Dig The Fuzz Records released ''Crushed Butler "Uncrushed"'', demos of Read's proto punk group. ''Crushed Butler "Uncrushed"'' album was reissued on compact disc with a new bonus track entitled ''High School Dropout(2nd Version)'' by RPM/Cherry Red Records in 2005. In 1999 White and Read wrote a screenplay for the low-budget film production of ''Remember a Day'' and Richard Wright of

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gave White the rights to the track of the same title to use for the drama which was based heavily on

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of Pink Floyd. The film also starred

, Jamie Foreman,

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and Jenny Fabian – the author of ''Groupie''.

Ray Manzarek

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, retrieved 2012-01-14 The album was subsequently re-issued twice thereafter, once in 2005 on the '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'', illustrated by George Underwood in 1999, hardcover, and in 2000 in a paperback version. 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''.Gedichte mit Gitarre und Klavier
, taz.de, 14 February 2007, retrieved 2012-01-14 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. In 2009 ''Set'' 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

song titled "Somewhere To Go". The track was featured on a tribute album paying homage to the

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and the Deviants, which featured the likes of the Damned, the

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, Wilko Johnson, and the Only Ones. In mid November 2009 ''Crushed Butler Uncrushed'' was re-issued for the third time; this version on 12-inch vinyl with a new bonus track entitled ''Let It Ring'', was released worldwide by Radio Heartbeat Records, New York City. In August 2010, Windian Records USA released Crushed Butler's "It's My Life"/"My Son's Alive" on vinyl, and on 19 September 2010 Read released his latest album: ''All the Ghosts of Rock 'n' Roll'', produced by Italo/German producer Stephan Kroll. On 17 May 2011, Read released the single called "Money Number One" which was recorded in

and produced by Barry Upton. In February 2013 a fourth re-issue on vinyl, of the Crushed Butler 'Uncrushed' album was released by Last Years Youth records in Germany. Read played concerts worldwide as well performing poetry readings and being involved with film production. He was to be featured in a documentary on his prolific career, produced by German film maker Bernd Libbach. This was in early stages of production at the time of his death.

Death

Read died in a motorcycle road incident in

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, Thailand on 23 June 2013.

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 AbuCowie, Peter (1977) ''World Filmography'', AS Barnes, , p. 205, 209 * ''River Rivals'' (1967) as Ricky Holmes * '' The Lost Continent'' (1968) as El Diablo * '' Great Catherine'' (1968) as Young Peter * ''Remember a Day'' (2000) as Roger Bannerman (final film role)

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 *"

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" (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 *"

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" (1 episode, 1966) TV series as Peter *" The Canterville Ghost"

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(1966) TV episode as Stripe *"Lost Hearts"

(1966) TV episode as Giovanni *" Mrs Thursday" We Don't Pay London Prices (1967) TV episode as Boy *"

" (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) *"

" as Tommy Jones (2 episodes, 1969)Foster, Paul (1960)
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Stage

*'' Hair'' National UK tour as Drummer (1973) *'' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'' as Benjamin at the Civic Theatre,

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(1975) *''Let The Good Stones Roll'' as

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(1977) *''

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'' as Inch at

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(1978) *''Bastard Angel'' as Steve, Premier production of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)

Discography

Singles and EPs

*''Let the Good Stones Roll'' (vinyl EP) Clubland Records (1977) *''Living on Borrowed Time/West End Girl'' Monarch Records (1980) *''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) *''

'' (digital download re-issue) Beat Kat Records Germany (2009) *''It's My Life /My Son's Alive'' Crushed Butler, (7" 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) *''Crushed Butler'' 'Uncrushed' (10" vinyl) Last Years Youth Records Germany (2013)

References

External links

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