Among the most successful music producers in the 1970s and ’80s, he helped churn out hits for acts like Queen, the Cars, Journey and Foreigner.

Roy Thomas Baker, the English producer who worked with Queen and The Cars in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. He was 78. No cause of death has been announced.

Roy Thomas Baker, the producer best known for his work with Queen, has died aged 78. In a long career, London-born Baker produced some of the most influential and successful rock albums of the ’70s and ’80s.