The popular radio personality died of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease.
Tom Magliozzi, one of the co-hosts of NPR's popular Car Talk program, died Monday at the age of 77 due to complications from Alzheimer's Disease.
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Tom and his brother, Ray — aka "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers" — bantered, joked, and offered automobile advice for 25 years on the weekly NPR show, Car Talk. The brothers began the show at WBUR in Boston in 1977 and brought it to NPR's national audience in 1987. Since the brothers retired in 2012, re-runs of the show have been aired weekly on member stations for the past two years — a testament to the popularity of the show and its hosts.
"Tom's been such a dominant, positive personality amongst us for so long that all of us in the public radio family — and I include our millions of listeners — will find this news very difficult to receive," Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman said in a statement posted on NPR.org on Monday.
The public radio station announced the sad news on their Facebook and Twitter accounts Monday afternoon.
Tom and his brother/co-host, Ray, who is 12 years younger, grew up in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from MIT.
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