Streisand made two LPs with Perry, who encouraged her embrace contemporary songs like Laura Nyro's "Stoney End"

The prolific producer died from a heart attack at a hospital in Los Angeles on 24 December. He was 82. At the time of his passing, Perry had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Taking to Instagram on Christmas Day,

Perry, who died on Christmas Eve, left behind a body of work with artists like Carly Simon and Rod Stewart that can be seen as a roadmap of Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties pop