Once dubbed as 'The Pope of Pop' was hospitalised in late February with an aortic aneurysm.
New York:
Fourteen time Grammy winner andlegendary record producer Phil Ramone, who worked with thelikes of Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, RayCharles, Paul Simon and Billy Joel, has died. He was 72.
Once dubbed as 'The Pope of Pop' was hospitalised in lateFebruary with an aortic aneurysm. He passed away on Saturdaymorning at New York Presbyterian Hospital, according toRamone's son Matt.
A native of South Africa, Ramone had learned violin bythe age of just 3 and was trained at the Juilliard School inNew York. At the age of 10 he performed as a violinist forQueen Elizabeth II.
He later co-founded A & R Recording and built areputation as a versatile engineer, working on pop fare likeLesley Gore as well as jazz by John Coltrane and Quincy Jones.
He has worked on albums like Barbra Streisand's 1967 liveA Happening in Central Park, Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram(1971), Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (1975), Paul Simon'spop classic Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), BillyJoel's critical and commercial breakthrough The Stranger(1977) and Frank Sinatra's last-gasp Duets (1993).
In his 2007 memoir, "Making Records: The Scenes Behindthe Music", written with Charles L Granata, Ramone defined therole of record producer as roughly equivalent to that of afilm director, creating and managing an environment in whichto coax the best work out of his performers.
Once dubbed as 'The Pope of Pop' was hospitalised in lateFebruary with an aortic aneurysm. He passed away on Saturdaymorning at New York Presbyterian Hospital, according toRamone's son Matt.
A native of South Africa, Ramone had learned violin bythe age of just 3 and was trained at the Juilliard School inNew York. At the age of 10 he performed as a violinist forQueen Elizabeth II.
He later co-founded A & R Recording and built areputation as a versatile engineer, working on pop fare likeLesley Gore as well as jazz by John Coltrane and Quincy Jones.
He has worked on albums like Barbra Streisand's 1967 liveA Happening in Central Park, Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram(1971), Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (1975), Paul Simon'spop classic Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), BillyJoel's critical and commercial breakthrough The Stranger(1977) and Frank Sinatra's last-gasp Duets (1993).
In his 2007 memoir, "Making Records: The Scenes Behindthe Music", written with Charles L Granata, Ramone defined therole of record producer as roughly equivalent to that of afilm director, creating and managing an environment in whichto coax the best work out of his performers.
