49 min

Red Elvis, Dean Reed the US music star behind the Iron Curtain - Episode 1 (97‪)‬ Cold War Conversations

    • History

Ramona Reed’s father was Dean Reed an American actor, singer, songwriter, director, and Socialist who became a huge star in Latin America and the Eastern Bloc.
Now if you like the podcast you can help to support us for the price of a couple of coffees a month. You’ll be helping to cover the show’s increasing costs and keep us on the air, plus you get the sought after CWC coaster too.
Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
If that’s not your cup of tea, you can also help us by placing a written review on Itunes. This helps to raise our profile and get new guests on the show.
So back to today’s episode – Ramona was born in 1968 and gives insight into his life via private correspondence, but also what it was like to be the daughter of such a huge Eastern Bloc star. 
We welcome Ramona to our Cold War conversation…

Episode 2 of this interview is here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode98/

We have further photos and information on this episode in our episode notes at https://coldwarconversations.com/episode97/ 
Radio GDR
If you are interested in East Germany we can highly recommend our friends over at Radio GDR.


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Ramona Reed’s father was Dean Reed an American actor, singer, songwriter, director, and Socialist who became a huge star in Latin America and the Eastern Bloc.
Now if you like the podcast you can help to support us for the price of a couple of coffees a month. You’ll be helping to cover the show’s increasing costs and keep us on the air, plus you get the sought after CWC coaster too.
Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
If that’s not your cup of tea, you can also help us by placing a written review on Itunes. This helps to raise our profile and get new guests on the show.
So back to today’s episode – Ramona was born in 1968 and gives insight into his life via private correspondence, but also what it was like to be the daughter of such a huge Eastern Bloc star. 
We welcome Ramona to our Cold War conversation…

Episode 2 of this interview is here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode98/

We have further photos and information on this episode in our episode notes at https://coldwarconversations.com/episode97/ 
Radio GDR
If you are interested in East Germany we can highly recommend our friends over at Radio GDR.


Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/
Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations
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49 min

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