TV host Dick Clark dies
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.
Dick Clark, the music industry maverick, longtime TV host and powerhouse producer who changed the way we listened to pop music with ``American Bandstand,'' and whose trademark ``Rockin' Eve'' became a fixture of New Year's celebrations, died today at the age of 82.