Richard had a knack for matching the right song to the right artist,” Barbra Streisand said of record producer Richard Perry.

Perry worked behind the scenes with some of the industry's brightest stars including Barbra Streisand, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, and more

Richard Perry, a prominent record producer known for his work with Carly Simon and Barbra Streisand, died Tuesday at age 82. Richard Perry, the record producer who had a hand in creating dozens of pop hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s,

The recent death of music legend Richard Perry, best known for producing hit songs like Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” has sent shockwaves across the music world. Accordingly, fans have become curious about the circumstances surrounding his death with many fans wondering what the cause was.

Richard Perry died on Dec. 24 from cardiac arrest at the age of 82. He was a well-known music producer who worked with stars like Barbra Streisand and Ringo Starr and was in a long-term relationship with actress Jane Fonda from 2009 until 2017.

We lost one of the greats this week, when producer Richard Perry died at age 82. Like such contemporary producers as Jack Antonoff, Finneas, Daniel Nigro and Greg Kurstin, Perry was almost as famous as the artists he worked with (at least among pop music obsessives).

Streisand made two LPs with Perry, who encouraged her embrace contemporary songs like Laura Nyro's "Stoney End"

The prolific producer died from a heart attack at a hospital in Los Angeles on 24 December. He was 82. At the time of his passing, Perry had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Taking to Instagram on Christmas Day,