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Richard Perry, Top Record Producer, Dies at 82
Richard Perry, one of the most stylish and successful record producers of the 1970s and ’80s, died on Tuesday (Dec. 24) in Los Angeles. He was 82.
His other nominations, not already mentioned, were album of the year for Nilsson Schmilsson(the album that housed “Without You” and its quirky follow-up hit, “Coconut”), best pop instrumental performance for an instrumental version of “Jump (For My Love)” (The Pointer Sisters won best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal for the vocal version) and best music video, short form, for The Pointer Sisters’ So Excited compilation, on which he was the video director. His first big score as an indie producer was Streisand’s Stoney End, released in late 1970, on which the then-28-year-old superstar was, for the first time, singing songs written by and intended for an audience of people roughly her own age. From left: Producer Richard Perry, Jane Fonda, Clive Davis, singer/actress Jennifer Hudson, man of the evening Lucian Grainge, and Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow on the red carpet Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
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