You can keep the Beatles and forget Frank Sinatra, The Led Zeppelin are nowhere in the Kremlin, man. In the Communist Party, The Who are merely, the who? Mick Jagger, the Pink Floyd and Elvis Presley are forbidden practitioners of bourgeois culture.
But Dean Reed, the famous American pop star and heartthrob of the Soviet masses, is something else again.
Dean who?
“He’s 2nd Most Famous American In Soviet After President Ford.” -
UPI, 07/01/1976