'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark has died

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from Times Square on "New Year's Rockin' Eve," has died. He was 82.

 

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[Corrine 2,852]

Another icon is gone. RIP, Dick Clark.

[Temmu 1,931]

wow, now that's sad. but 82 is a ripe old age, and he stayed active.

i trust i will be active if i make it that far.

[Guest LilBambi]

Sad to see Dick Clark go. He was quite an icon!

 

He certainly was a ripe old age for sure at 82.

 

There is a whole new generation growing up right now that will never know who he was.