'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark died of heart attack

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 3:26 p.m. CDT; updated 4:15 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, April 18, 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 year-end countdown from Times Square on "New Year's Rockin' Eve," has died. He was 82.

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