For anyone who didn't know him, here's a bit of what he did. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...99CUBQ&usg=AFQjCNHXIhNNVqzFa9gtiNwYy9wEyhAGLw
Just doesn't seem right that the world's oldest teenager should pass away. RIP Dick, you had many of us watching all the pretty girls dancing and listening to the music.
I don't think he got a handle on acid rock (not that anyone else did either). He invented Disco to mask over a place where music went cosmic. Other than that, he was pretty cool. Cheers old boy.
Although he was my generation's cool big brother, I never really watched his show. But I was aware of what he was doing and appreciated him. He had a lot to do with the racial integration of popular music. I'm ashamed to admit that, being on the West Coast then, I didn't appreciate what it meant for him to do his traditional New Year's Eve ceremony in New York City just three and a half months after 9/11. Huge crowds of New Yorkers showed up, thumbing their frozen noses at the terrorists.