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Comrade RockstarAbove all, here was the story of the yearning for the West. Here was a Cold War sideshow invested in one handsome American boy from Colorado who, guitar on his back, struck out in search of fame and fortune and found it on the other side of the world. And even after I had finished this book and it was published in England and Leslie Woodhead made a BBC documentary based on it, the story stuck to my life. In 1999, I got a call from Hollywood. "I've sold your book to Tom Hanks," my agent said. And it was true, as it turned out, and eventually I met Tom Hanks, but that came later. Sixteen years have passed now since the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, and Dean Reed will soon have been dead for twenty years. So it seems like a good time to take another look at his life. After the Berlin Wall fell, I was able to track down information about Reed that I couldn't access before. Based on this, I reworked the original book, incorporating things as I saw them on the road in those astonishing years. It is now finally published in the United States for the first time ...» |
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