Casey Kasem, the American Top 40 radio host who crafted a long and lucrative career out of counting down to No. 1, has died. He was 82. Kasem, who hosted the syndicated weekend show for nearly four decades, died of complications from dementia at St. Anthony's Hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash. Since his first broadcast from Hollywood on seven stations on July 4, 1970, to his finale on the same holiday weekend in 2009, the peppy Kasem ended each American Top 40 show with his signature line: "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." Casey Kasem's career took him far from his Detroit roots, but he never forgot the place where he first cut his teeth as a deejay - and where he returned several times to celebrate Detroit radio. Growing up in the Motor City, Kasem was involved with Northwestern High School's radio club and majored in speech education at Wayne State University.

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