Washington Post, Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page BW12
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Tragic Figures
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Dean Reed could only be himself. Toward the end of the Cold War, he was so famous that fans would "just write DEAN REED, EAST BERLIN on a postcard and it would get to him," writes Reggie Nadelson in Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock 'n' Roll to the Soviet Union (Walker, $14.95). His albums "went gold from Berlin to Bulgaria." When he performed at Red Square, there were "people plucking at his clothes, throwing flowers, begging for autographs." He was the biggest thing east of the Iron Curtain, but few Americans had ever heard of him. Then, in 1986, Mike Wallace did a story on the socialist rock star for "60 Minutes"; six weeks later, Reed was dead. Nadelson saw that original piece and has been fixated on Reed's life and mysterious death ever since: "Here was a Cold War sideshow invested in one handsome American boy from Colorado who, guitar on his back, struck out in search of fame and fortune and found it on the other side of the world."
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