Although Dick Clark is now not with us, his title lights up tens of millions of TV units each December 31, due to Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest.
Clark manned the New 12 months’s Eve broadcast for 40 years, and towards the top of his life, the veteran TV persona shared internet hosting duties with Ryan Seacrest. Now Seacrest is carrying on Clark’s legacy and gearing as much as host New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve for the nineteenth time, and he’s bringing Rita Ora alongside for the experience.
Serving to to usher in 2024 are this 12 months’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve performers, together with Megan Thee Stallion, Jelly Roll, Sabrina Carpenter, Submit Malone, Ellie Goulding, Inexperienced Day, and Janelle Monáe.
With the brand new 12 months coming in sizzling, scroll right down to rewind the clock to memorable moments from NYRE historical past.
1972: Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve kicks off (below a distinct title)
Clark emceed the December 31 broadcast for the primary time in 1972, although that inaugural present was known as Three Canine Night time’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve, named after the rock band headlining the get together on the RMS Queen Mary in California. Becoming a member of Three Canine Night time aboard that ship have been the jazz-rock ensemble Blood, Sweat & Tears and the singers Al Inexperienced, Billy Preston, and Helen Reddy. Clark, in the meantime, reported stay from Occasions Sq..
2001: Dick Clark pays tribute to post-9/11 New York
With lower than two minutes left in 2001 — and just a few months after the September eleventh assaults — Clark praised the resilience of New Yorkers like these gathered to observe the ball drop. “They’re taking part in ‘God Bless America,’ as a result of everyone remembers the final 12 months with nice reverence, nice assist, nice sympathy,” he mentioned. “It was not the happiest 12 months in America’s life, however we’re urgent on. And New Yorkers are with it, they’re dynamic individuals, they’re able to go, they’re able to sit up for the 12 months 2002.”
2005: Clark makes a comeback
After struggling a stroke in 2004, Clark returned to ABC in 2005 to assist Seacrest ring within the new 12 months. “Final 12 months I had a stroke. I used to be in dangerous form,” he informed viewers. “My speech is just not good, however I’m getting there.”
2011: Clark celebrates his ultimate New 12 months’s Eve
Clark manned the New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast one final time in 2011 earlier than his loss of life three and a half months later. “I don’t care the place you reside — you received’t discover something prefer it anyplace on the earth,” he informed viewers, reflecting on the Occasions Sq. celebration. “Forty years later, I nonetheless discover it wonderful.”
2014: Taylor Swift shakes it off
One of many world’s largest pop stars made a Swift restoration when she made a careless descent from the New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve stage in 2014, springing to her ft and giving followers a wave after slipping down the steps.
2014: Idina Menzel lets it go
And by “it,” we imply the criticism of her efficiency of the hit Frozen tune for the 2014 NYRE broadcast. After viewers known as her out for lacking some notes, Menzel responded on Twitter, referencing a quote she’d given to Southwest’s journal. “Performing isn’t solely concerning the acrobatics and the excessive notes: It’s staying within the second, connecting with the viewers in an genuine means, and making your self actual to them by the music,” she informed the journal, partly.
2016: Mariah Carey hits the incorrect notes
“It simply don’t get any higher,” Carey mentioned on stage after struggling by a six-minute New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve efficiency beset by technical difficulties, half-hearted dancing, and apparent lip-syncing. The pop diva’s workforce later claimed that her in-ear displays weren’t working.
2017: Britney Spears places within the “Work Bitch”
The 2017 present tapped into Spears’ then-ending Las Vegas residency to deal with viewers to the pop star performing “Work Bitch” and “Poisonous” — or, at the least, mouthing alongside to the lyrics. And the chewing gum that viewers noticed in Spears’ mouth solely lent credence to the lip-syncing claims.
2020: Jennifer Lopez slides into the primary pandemic broadcast
By no means thoughts that her Occasions Sq. viewers numbered within the dozens and never the hundreds, Lopez nonetheless entertained a socially-distanced crowd — together with then-fiancé Alex Rodriguez — in the course of the first NYRE broadcast of the COVID-19 period. And through a spirited rendition of “Dance Once more,” J.Lo did a knee-slide throughout the stage and crashed right into a digital camera operator.
Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Sunday, December 31, 8/7c, ABC
