Rock 'n' Roll Radical: The Life & Mysterious Death of Dean Reed

Rock 'n' Roll Radical: The Life & Mysterious Death of Dean Reed by Chuck Laszewski. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781592981151.

When East German police pulled American Dean Reeds body out of a lake behind the Iron Curtain in 1986, fans and government officials around the world speculated wildly about who caused his death. The handsome singing and acting superstar starred in movies with some of the biggest names of the 1960s and 70s, and women on three continents were happy to share his bed. But Reed was driven to fight injustice, braving gunfire and torture to vocally oppose oppressive governments throughout South America, touching off an international incident with his arrest in the United States and angering his own government with protests against its foreign policies. His knack for showing up wherever history was being written brought money and acclaim, but failed to translate into Hollywood fame. This is the uniquely American tale of Reeds meteoric rise from a Colorado cowboy to a beloved international star, and of the hand that finally silenced him. For those who remember seeing Reed profiled on 60 Minutes and in the pages of People magazine, or for anyone intrigued by the early years of rock n roll or the liberal activism of the 1960s and 1970s, this is the dramatic investigation of a rebels life.