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Tim Mohr, Journalist and Author With Duff McKagan and Paul Stanley, Dead at 55
Tim Mohr, the acclaimed journalist, translator and author who collaborated with Duff McKagen and Paul Stanley, has died at age 55.
Tim Mohr, the acclaimed journalist, author, and translator who collaborated on memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, New York. Released in 2018, Burning Down the Haus told the definitive story of the role 1980s East German punks played in bringing down the Berlin Wall and functioned as, as Mohr noted in 2023, a “corrective to the American triumphalist view of the end of the Cold War.” ( Rolling Stone dubbed it “a thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world.”) “I realized I’d been fed the typical American mythology of the importance of Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ speech and how Easterners just wanted to have Big Macs and Levis and all that shit,” Mohr told Rolling Stone in 2018.
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