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Red, maybe, but Reed was no Elvis
David Harsanyi Denver Post Staff Columnist
July 17, 2006; Page B-01
Section: DENVER AND WEST
Article ID: 1319001 -- 643 words
The 1985 documentary "American Rebel" opens with a surreal scene. Hundreds of young people swarm a tall, handsome rock star, begging for an autograph and reaching out to touch him.
The thing is, it takes place in the middle of Moscow's Red Square. "Oh, my God, it's Dean Reed!"
"Who's Dean Reed?"
"I can't believe you've never
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1st U.S. edition of Reed bio draws an ouch
Bill Husted Denver Post Staff Columnist
July 16, 2006; Page F-02
Section: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Article ID: 1319026 -- 605 words
Comrade Rockstar" is the biography of Dean Reed, the Colorado folk singer from Wheat Ridge who became a singing commie in the '60s, and went on to become the "Red-Elvis."
The book, written by Reggie Nadelson, was published in England 15 years ago, but this is the first American edition. A review last Sunday in The NY Times contained a sentence you never want to see about your book: "She sometimes has trouble remembering
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Ashes to ashes, but what's become of expatriate Dean
Reed?
DICK KRECK DENVER POST
November 1, 1991; Page 1B
Article ID: DNVR96415 -- 537 words
Dean Reed's been a long time
coming home. Even in death he can't seem to get here.
The
Colorado-born Reed, singer/actor/filmmaker/political activist, was a
colossal star in the Soviet Union and other communist bloc countries but
barely a twinkle in the public eye in this country.
His death in East
Germany in 1986 remains a mystery. His present whereabouts are puzzling,
too.
Reed's mother, Ruth Anna Brown , living in Boulder, made a trip
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