‘The Man Who Made Rock ‘n’ Roll Safe For America’ – Dick Clark, ‘America’s Oldest Teenager’

“Before the invention of teenagers [in the 1960s] there had been bobbysoxers in the 1940s but no generational tag for adolescence. … He instinctively understood that the best way to capitalize on the emerging market was to pose as a kind of older brother, a safe-as-milk intermediary who kept the peace between worried parents and their restless children.”