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Producer Ramone recovering after surgery
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 4 March 2013
Multi-award winning American producer Phil Ramone, best known for his work with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, and for recording Marilyn Monroe’s rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to then President JFK in 1962, was hospitalised in New York last week after suffering an aortic aneurysm.
Initial reports said that 72 year old Ramone was in a critical condition, though subsequent surgery has seemingly been successful. Gregg Field of Concord Music Group told Billboard that his long-time producing partner and friend was “resting comfortably and expected to be released in the next few days”.
