Dick Clark, 1929-2012: Dick Clark, TV Host and Icon of New Year’s Eve, Is Dead at 82

"American Bandstand" host Dick Clark, whose long-running television dance show helped rock 'n' roll win acceptance in mainstream America, has died at age 82, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The man who helped turn rock & roll mainstream through "American Bandstand" and later became a TV fixture on New Year's Eve, Dick Clark, has left us. But the Hollywood legend lives on in a new social video game from Entertainment . Clark serves as the virtual host of Retro World, a new Facebook game ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Clark married music and television long before "American Idol." But his legacy extends well beyond the persona of the laid-back host of "American Bandstand" whose influence can still be seen on TV today....

Broadcast icon Dick Clark, the creator and longtime host of "American Bandstand," has died, publicist Paul Shefrin said. He was 82.

Forbes reports that popular TV personality Dick Clark has died at the age of 82. Clark rose to prominence in the ?50s as the host of ?American Bandstand,? which presented the latest pop music hits on TV. ?American Bandstand? became a phenomenon at a time when American pop music grew into the form it is ...

Dick Clark, ?America?s Oldest Teenager,? died today at age 82 of a heart attack. He had toughed it out for eight years after debilitating strokes. But he refused to allow them to slow him down or kick him off television. Despite his enormous physical deficiencies, Clark still appeared annually on ?New Years? Rockin Eve,? the ...

? Who knew that the timeless music countdown maestro Dick Clark was also a lover of architecture as art? Or, make that, architecture as cave. A new listing by the 82-year-old ?American Bandstand? host and host of countless New Year?s Eve nights in Times Square has hit the Malibu real estate market and caused a ...