Dick Clark: the underground's unlikely champion

As host of American Bandstand, Dick Clark was responsible for smuggling subversion into US homesIt is easy to think of Dick Clark, who died on Wednesday, as a real square, standing dead centre in the cultural median, slick and mainstream, ageless and rocking a perdurable deep Californian tan and a haircut that didn't change in the 33 years that American Bandstand, the music show he hosted, was on the air. Looking at him now from the distance of 2012, he seems like a relic of another innocent tim...

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