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Dean Reed
East Germany • 1938-09-22 – 1986-06-13
Dean Reed is credited on 228 releases across 29 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
228
Pressings credited
29
Albums
8
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
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.
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Credited work
228 releases · 29 albums · active 1959–2023
- Performance · 730
- Other credits · 219
Studios: Mozarteum · Supraphon Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Rolf Lukowsky
- Martin Hoffmann
- Helena Vondráčková
- Monomango
- Kreis
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