Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (30 November 1929–18 April 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American television's longest-running variety show,American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations worldwide.

Quotes

 * You can't make a hit record out of nothing. … It's baseless to think you can make any recording a hit, just by playing it over and over and over again.
 * Responding to payola charges, Pop Chronicles, Show 12 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. Part 2, interview recorded 3.11.1968.


 * For now, Dick Clark. So long.
 * His signoff from the various versions of Pyramid he hosted.