Richard Perry has worked with music greats such as Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand and Ringo Starr. He was also known as Jane Fonda's partner. Now the producer has died at the age of 82.
The US music producer Richard Perry, who worked with stars such as Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, is dead. He died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 82, as several US media agreed, citing his assistant Ben McCarthy and actress Daphna Kastner reported. Kastner said he was a close acquaintance of Perry's. The producer died of a cardiac arrest in the hospital.
Perry was also known as the former partner of actress and activist Jane Fonda (87). The couple separated in 2017.
Great successes in the 1970s
In the 1970s, Perry worked with Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon and Art Garfunkel. He recorded the number one hit “You're So Vain”, which songwriter Carly Simon released in 1972, a hundred times before he was satisfied, the New York Times quoted Simon as saying in an interview with Uncut magazine.
He also produced Rod Stewart's “The Great American Songbook” series and albums by Ringo Starr – such as the self-titled “Ringo”, on which the other three Beatles also worked. In 1978, Perry founded his own label, Planet Records, which was later purchased by RCA Records. The Pointer Sisters' album “Energy” was released on Planet Records.
Later, for example, he worked with Diana Ross on her 1977 album “Baby It's Me.” Perry, who came from Brooklyn, New York, was also a musician himself.
