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'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark dead at 82

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Growing up in a very conservative, Missouri-Synod Lutheran community and church, exposure to new styles of music was limited. One of the few places a kid from Northern Minnesota (pre-cable) who lived Juuust outside FM radio range could find and listen to new styles of music and see new fashions and diverse people (diversity where I was from was you were Norweigan, Swedish, or Finnish. That was the diversity. My family filled the state's Irish quota (yes, they were cops). Bandstand offered real diversity.

And the music...WOW! Mind blowing, to say the least.

Dick Clark owned American Bandstand. No one was hipper than Dick. He was my reason for the weekend. I learned a lot about music from Dick Clark. I think a lot of us did.

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Really sad news. He had a great voice. He was the voice of the times in many ways. It's as if an era in American history has ended. So long, Dick Clark.

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Thanks for the memories...

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I am surprised to know that he was still alive, but yes MEMORIES, when I was a young lad, loved American BandStand! RIP Dick Clark! Also sorry to hear how sad life up there in Norther Minneosta, with no cable tv??

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Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from Buddy Holly to Madonna.

And PIL , in 1980, probably not one of Clark's favorite episodes.

Although its influence started to ebb, it still featured some of the biggest stars of each decade, whether Janis Joplin, the Jackson 5, Talking Heads or Prince.

Dick Clark was one of the more visible living links to a completely different era, too rapidly gone. A lot of baby boomers in the US and those of us in the pre-MTV generation witnessing Clark's passing (followed the very next day by the truly legendary Levon Helm) definitely giving some thought to their own mortality I would think...

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