Satirical songwriter Randy Newman has always been quick to skewer the pompous and the powerful — so he couldn’t resist the opportunity to write a decidedly less-than-flattering musical ...

“Randy’s song was so mysterious,” Dylan recalled. “I never heard a song like that before; it was so cynical.” Newman’s own rendition later stood out to him for “the sadness in Randy ...

So while I hope people take a little bit more away from it than this, if you want to just look at this as a concert, as a compilation of Randy Newman songs, there’s not gonna be one ...

Randy Newman returned to late-night television with a performance of his 1972 song “Political Science” on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. The legendary singer-songwriter also played a ...

Litmus Music has acquired Randy Newman‘s music publishing and his stake in his recorded music catalog, the company announced Thursday. The deal includes both songs and film scores from ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys” with “Rednecks,” a song about American racism so honest and shocking — not least because Newman brandishes the N-word in the voice ...

A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY: The Biography of Randy Newman, by Robert Hilburn Randy Newman was a nepo baby, a sprig of musical royalty. Three of his uncles were Hollywood film composers.

Randy Livingston will leave Newman at the end of the school year, ending his six-year tenure as basketball coach, according to an email sent to Newman families on Thursday. Livingston coached the ...

As a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also around this time that his life started to slide sideways. He suffered from ...

Randy Newman at home in Pacific Palisades in 2017. The musician and songwriter is the subject of a new biography by former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) ...