'Soul Train' Creator Dead in Suicide (omg!)

Don Cornelius, the creator of the legendary television dance show Soul Train, is dead after officers responded to a 911 call to his Mulholland Drive, California home at 4 a.m. this morning, ET confirms.

A coroner pronounced him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Associated Press reports.

He was 75-years-old.

Soul Train debuted in 1971 and changed the landscape of television. It was the longest-running, first-run, nationally syndicated program in television history.

Superstars that have appeared on the show include Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, Sting, Diana Ross and Jamie Foxx.

"I am shocked and deeply saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, colleague, and business partner Don Cornelius. Don was a visionary pioneer and a giant in our business," legendary record producer Quincy Jones tells ET in a statement. "Before MTV there was 'Soul Train', that will be the great legacy of Don Cornelius. His contributions to television, music and our culture as a whole will never be matched."

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