According to Burling’s wife Dana Dragomir, he died peacefully surrounded by his family at home.
— We were all so close to him and love him. It is a great sadness, says Dana Dragomir to the newspaper.
In the early 1960s, Burling became the presenter of several music programs on Swedish Radio. He did the first Swedish interview with the Beatles in 1963 and later lured the band over to Sweden. Burling has also done a famous interview with Bob Dylan.