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

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

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 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.

Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

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,