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ABC News
By JULIA KATHAN and SHEILA MARIKAR (@SheilaYM)
April 18, 2012
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.
Clark's agent Paul Shefrin said in statement that the veteran host died this morning following a "massive heart attack."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dick-clark-entertainment...
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Poodle skirts and pony tails...
....that I wore only in my dreams...dancing away... sad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohN-4eAll_0
Love, Andrea Lena
RIP
Dick Clark RIP.
American Bandstand, which he hosted from 1956 - 1989, was the most influential show regarding Rock and Popular Music during that time period. His patronage could influence a persons career.
RAMI
RAMI
I knew he was getting up in
I knew he was getting up in age, ever since he left tv a few years back. I always thought that man never aged. In my mind I keep him and Wolfman Jack in the same category them and the Casey Kasem
I guess someone found his
I guess someone found his painting at last, and it all caught up to him.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
No no no! It was his coffin with soil from his native land
THAT'S why he seemed to defy aging.
I mean all those Rocking New years Eve shows and ALL after dark.
-- SNICKER --
To be serious... HEY *I* can be serious... we lost a giant of TV. All those game shows, American Bandstand and so on.
Yet he was over three years younger than my dad.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Oh, okay
I was starting to get a bit PO'd, one of the legends of 20th Century Rock 'n' Roll and people are making stupid, sick jokes. I was about one comment from taking this down. Sorry I'm being bitchy but I've only got one nerve left and people (not just here) are starting to get on it.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
To be honest, the Portrait of
To be honest, the Portrait of Dorian Gray jokes have been going on for YEARS.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Well!
That of course justifies everything! I still feel just a little respect is in order.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
*shrug* I respect everything
*shrug*
I respect everything he's done over the years. Like Mr. Rogers, he made an enormous impact on virtually everyone alive in the US today. Things would be very different without American Bandstand (and its precursor) and even the 'Dick Clark's Rock, Roll, and Remember' show on weekends - which I listened to every chance I could.
That being said, there's nothing else that can be done to the man, or for the man, and every reason to joke a little about death. Don't feel sad that he died, be happy that he -LIVED-.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
That was no heart attack, the
That was no heart attack, the nuclear reactor powering his robot body finally ran out.
More proof ...
... of the end of the world happening December 21.
After all, since Dick Clark's not around for the New Year's countdown, how can it happen? ;)
Sorrry about that. It's just that it seemed he was always there
Dick Clark was such a fixture on TV, an icon perhaps is a better term, that it is hard not to imagine he was immortal.
But then in many ways the stars of TV and film were larger than life. In particular if you were a little kid at the time. He was a mainstay on TV -- with Band Stand -- from as early as I can remember until well into my college years. Then all those Blooper shows, game shows and so on.
I can't remember a time in my life, until recent years, he wasn't on the TV at least one day aweek, often many more than that.
It might be a streach but you could possibly call him the Mr. Rogers of Rock-n-roll. That friendly face you saw on TV introducing something interesting.
That he lasted so long in a medium, initially radio then later TV, that all but worships novelty and youth is a monument to his talent and hard work.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
It's like this, John
To some of these people Dick Clark may be a punchline for the latest Internet crap going around, but he was also a husband and father. To them this is the worst day in their lives. What right do we have to make their burden any heavier to bear?
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Grief ...
... means different things to different people, and we deal with it in different ways.
I was mainly privy to Dick Clark's "second career", if you will, his career outside of music - Pyramid and the bloopers shows with Ed McMahon being the foremost examples. Yet I could always count on every December 31, turning on the television and watching the latest music, with Mr. Clark there for the countdown (and whatever else he could handle), and I always had a high respect for him. This past year was especially touching, especially given all of his health issues in 2011.
The big names on television, when I was growing up, are reaching the end of their lives now, and it's sad to see the passing of an era. First Johnny Carson several years ago, and now Dick Clark, two great men of my childhood in entertainment, are gone. Mike Wallace, one of the great examples of news from my youth, also gone a couple of weeks ago. Ronald Reagan, the first President I remember and admired, gone. Chick Hearn ... I could probably go on with other examples, but I think my point has been made.
So indeed a world is coming to an end, at least metaphorically speaking.
For my parents, and my
For my parents, and my uncles, when my grandfather, and then my grandmother died, there was an impact - but not as large of one as you might think. At 87 years old (as I remember), my grandfather had done a tremendous amount, and was still trying to keep busy - but his family had all built their own lives.
My grandmother died later, and at that point, it was almost a relief. Lung cancer had metastasized, (untreatable), and she was going demented. It was relatively hard on everyone concerned to see her like that. For her, death wasn't horrible - it was a release from years of pain and effort. (She had been on breathing therapy for several years). BOTH of them had done a lot, were respected by many, and missed by many; but we didn't grieve. We celebrated their lives.
(When my mother grew up, she didn't even see a funeral until she moved away from home at 18. All they had were wakes)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Dick Clark
I met Dick Clark once in 1969 in Houston. I was a sacker when I was in high school for a major supermarket chain. In those days, we put the groceries in paper bags and put them in the customer's cars. I sacked his groceries and recognized him on the way to the car. He stopped and shook my hand and we exchanged a few words. I think I said something intelligent, like "Wow, a celebrity." He impressed me as being genuinely nice and also pretty short. I have no idea what he was doing in Houston at the time, but there it is.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi