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Richard Perry, record producer behind You’re So Vain, other hits, dies at 82

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Richard Perry was a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds.

His successes included Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain and Rod Stewart’s The Great American Songbook series.

Perry was widely known as a “musician's producer,” treating artists like peers rather than vehicles for his own tastes.

In the ’70s , Perry helped facilitate a near-Beatles reunion.

Perry 's post-1970s work included such hit singles as The Pointer Sisters’ Neutron Dance and DeBarge’s Rhythm of the Night .

He helped make pop history the year before as producer of You’re So Vain, which he called the nearest he came to a perfect record.

Perry was a New York City native born into a musical family; his parents, Mark and Sylvia Perry , co-founded Peripole Music .

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