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Randy Newman, Music's Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer's Biography
For the last 55 years or so, you've had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the ...
Randy Newman’s iconic ‘I Love L.A.’ opened the Grammys. Here’s how the performance came together
The L.A. band Dawes, whose members were seriously impacted by the Eaton fire, on what it meant to perform Newman's early-'80s classic.
The song Paul McCartney wrote to emulate Randy Newman
Randy Newman is often cited by many artists as a guiding light for songwriting. For Paul McCartney, one song in particular was an aim to emulate Newman.
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10 things we learned from Randy Newman’s Mastertapes
Two Academy Awards, six Grammys, 200,000 (by his own, admittedly shaky, estimation) devoted fans, Randy Newman thoroughly deserves the title of musical legend. Combining biting wit with his own ...
The best lyric writer America “has ever produced”, according to Randy Newman
If you're going to skewer the world as all great satirists do, you first have to look it straight in the eye. Randy Newman's gaze has been as firm as any.
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Randy Newman: “I’m slowly realising just how stupid I am!”
Originally published in Uncut's Take 178 It might surprise you to learn that Randy Newman has only ever bought “around 50” pop records in his life. “Most of my collection is classical ...