Angela George · CC BY-SA 3.0

Lou Adler produced Carole King's Tapestry, which won the 1972 Grammy for Album of the Year and is widely ranked among the best-selling and most acclaimed pop albums ever made, alongside earlier work developing the Mamas & the Papas, Jan and Dean, and the Grass Roots. He was also an executive producer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and helped launch Cheech & Chong's film and album career; he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 and received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2006.