{"id":119010,"date":"2024-12-26T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/26\/rod-stewart-mourns-producer-of-his-great-american-songbook-albums-im-devastated\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:01:11","slug":"rod-stewart-mourns-producer-of-his-great-american-songbook-albums-im-devastated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/26\/rod-stewart-mourns-producer-of-his-great-american-songbook-albums-im-devastated\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart mourns producer of his ‘Great American Songbook’ albums: ‘I’m devastated’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L-R: Rod Stewart, record label head Clive Davis, producer Richard Perry; L. Cohen\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rod Stewart<\/strong> is “devastated” by the death of Richard Perry<\/strong>, who produced most of his best-selling Great American Songbook<\/em> albums. Perry died of cardiac arrest on Dec. 24 in LA, according to the New York Times<\/em><\/a>. He was 82.<\/p>\n

“Dearest Richard, farewell, my dear buddy,” Rod wrote on Instagram<\/a>. “They say in life a man is lucky if he can count his true friends on one hand, and you were certainly one of them. Now I’ve lost you and I’m devastated.”<\/p>\n

“We played and worked so closely together for so many years, creating some of the most memorable music together,” he continued. “You were there when [my wife] Penny<\/strong> and I first started dating, encouraging our relationship. We were both in tears as I post this farewell.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Rod’s Songbook<\/em> albums, which revived his career in the early 2000s, Perry also produced classic albums like Barbra Streisand<\/strong>‘s Stoney End<\/em>, Carly Simon’<\/strong>s No Secrets,<\/em> which included “You’re So Vain;” Harry Nilsson’<\/strong>s Nilsson Schmilsson<\/em>, featuring “Without You” and “Jump Into the Fire” and Ringo Starr<\/strong>‘s Ringo<\/em>, which featured the hits “Oh My My,” “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen.”<\/p>\n

Other hits Perry produced include\u00a0Leo Sayer’s<\/strong>\u00a0“You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better,” The Pointer Sisters<\/strong>‘ “I’m So Excited,” “Jump (For My Love)” and “Slow Hand,” DeBarge<\/strong>‘s “Rhythm of the Night” and “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” by Willie Nelson<\/strong> and Julio Iglesias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L-R: Rod Stewart, record label head Clive Davis, producer Richard Perry; L. Cohen\/WireImage Rod Stewart is “devastated” by the death of Richard Perry, who produced most of his best-selling Great American Songbook albums. Perry died of cardiac arrest on Dec. 24 in LA, according to the New York Times. HeRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}