Music Producer Richard Perry, Beatles’ Friend, Dies at 82

Music Producer Richard Perry, Beatles’ Friend, Dies at 82
Producer Richard Perry poses for a photo in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 18, 1982. Lennox McLendon/AP Photo
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Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series, and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said.