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

Richard Parsons, 76, the executive dubbed “Captain Emergency” for his record of stabilizing ailing companies, died Thursday at his home in New York City. The cause of death was bone cancer, The New ...

Richard Perry, the producer behind Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited,” and many other hits, has died. As the Associated Press reports, Perry passed away Tuesday at a ...

Legendary producer who worked with the likes of Rod Stewart, Fats Domino, Carly Simon, and more passed away earlier this week.

Famed Jewish record producer Richard Perry died on Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest. With a lush, clear production style ...

Rest in musical peace, Richard.” Perry rose to fame in the late ’60s and early ’70s, with him going to work with artists such as Carly Simon, Art Garfunkel, Diana Ross, Leo Sayer ...

Simon’s scathing ballad about an ... is based on is really a composite of several men that Carly dated in the ’60s and early ’70s, but primarily, it’s about my good friend, Warren Beatty.” ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Producer Richard Perry poses for a photo in Los Angeles, Jan. 18, 1982. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File ...

The onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer became the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop, R&B, dance and country ...

Richard Perry's many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain" and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles.

Richard worked with the likes of Carly Simon, Ringo Starr ... Andy Williams and Fanny. By the late 70s, he launched his own label, Planet Records, and rant it for six years before it was purchased ...