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Dean Reed
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singer, musician, actor, writer, director (1938-1986)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Integrating Project Delivery
- DEAN REED, ERZÄHLT AUS SEINEM LEBEN
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-03-02
- Active to
- 2013-10-27
Discography
- Lou Reed1972
- Transformer1972
- Berlin1973
- Sally Can’t Dance1974
- Metal Machine Music1975
- Coney Island Baby1975
- Rock and Roll Heart1976
- Street Hassle1978
- The Bells1979
- Growing Up in Public1980
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 4,103
- Total plays
- 46,242
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Dean Cyril Reed (September 22, 1938 - June 13, 1986) was an American actor, singer and songwriter who lived much of his adult life in communist East Germany. Born and raised in Longmont (near Denver, Colorado), Reed moved to California as a young man after realizing he had some talent as a musician, and signed a record contract with Capitol Records in 1958. Capitol groomed him to be a teen idol, and he produced some modestly popular singles, including "Our Summer Romance" and "Whirly Twirly <a
Recent publications · Crossref
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- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Mr. Simpatia, Red Elvis
- Born
- Dean Cyril Reed , September 22, 1938
- Origin
- Denver , Colorado, U.S.
- Died
- June 13, 1986 (aged 47), Zeuthen , East Germany
- Genres
- Pop, country , rock and roll
- Occupations
- Singer, musician, actor, writer, director
- Instruments
- Vocals, guitar
- Years active
- 1958–1986
- Labels
- Capitol Records , Melodiya , Amiga , Supraphon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cyril
- Family name
- Reed
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Denver
- Place of death
- Zeuthen
- Spouse
- Renate Blume
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- bard song
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Supraphon
- Official website
- www.deanreed.de
- Image
- ReedD.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 12 more facts
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Dean Reed
- date of birth
- 1938-09-22
- date of death
- 1986-06-13
- manner of death
- Suicide
- birth name
- Dean Cyril Reed
- name in native language
- Dean Reed
- cause of death
- drowning
- place of burial
- Boulder
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- time period
- 20th century
- influenced by
- Elvis Presley
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Encyclopedic overview
Dean Cyril Reed (September 22, 1938 – June 13, 1986) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in East Germany.
Nicknamed the Red Elvis, Reed was the best-selling Western performer in communist countries, with his songs often topping the local charts, and millions of his records were sold in the Eastern Bloc and elsewhere mostly under the Soviet Melodiya label. He never renounced his U.S. citizenship, despite often denouncing the policy of the U.S. government, and was seen by the Western media as a threat and as a revolutionary artist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dean Reed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.