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

Perry, who started out as a drummer, was behind hits by Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Tiny Tim and scores of other singing stars.

Producer Richard Perry, who died at 82 on Christmas Eve, left behind a musical legacy that can be seen as a roadmap of Seventies and Eighties pop.

Known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, the Pointer Sisters and many others, he was one of the most reliable hitmakers in the business.

Richard Perry, the legendary record producer behind iconic hits like Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain, has passed away at 82. Perry died on Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest,

Richard Perry, a music producer behind hits like Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” has died. He was 82. The record producer died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering cardiac arrest. Daphna Kastner,

Richard Perry, who produced Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain,' Rod Stewart's 'Great American Songbook' and Barbra Streisand's genre switch, dies at 82.

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).