America's New Year's host, Dick Clark, dead at 82
Thursday, April 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES -- 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 New Year's Eve countdown from Times Square, has died. He was 82.
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