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. He was 82.
His friend Daphna Kastner Keitel told the New York Times he died of cardiac arrest.
Perry started out recording Tiny Tim’s first album “God Bless Tiny…