Aretha Franklin and Don Cornelius on SOUL TRAIN

The man who created SOUL TRAIN, a staple of Saturday mornings for many of us (of a certain age…) has died.

Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Mulholland Drive home at around 4 a.m. on February 1, 2012, police said. Cornelius is reported to have suffered a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. He was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.

He was 75.