From Bob Dylan to Randy Newman and Loudon Wainwright – both of whom were ... Therein, he cried for 40 days and 40 nights straight until he died of dehydration. If things sound dour, then the diegesis ...

Newman started things off with “I Think It’s Going To ... I don’t need to point out how relevant that one is. Randy Newman wasn’t the only music legend on last night’s episode.

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 ...

While his Toy Story soundtrack is most famous for the classic ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’, that wasn’t the only great song that Randy Newman wrote for the film. ‘Strange Things’ is sung from the point ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys ... I’m feeling stronger.” A few things. Mainly, what was going on in the record company. Nobody told me much. After the first ...

“It’s a strange combination, but Randy always manages to pull it off,” he adds. Likewise, Newman earned the respect of Etta James, who recorded an electrifying cover of one of his ...

Unlike popular songs by leftists that seek to spark outrage or exultation or urge listeners to get out in the street and march, Randy Newman’s ... what they call things … maybe American ...

It seems that there’s a Randy Newman for all sorts of music listeners. Like acerbic/satirical/edgy/intelligent pop songs? He’s the guy who wrote tunes from the ...

“Louisiana 1927,” a classic from Randy Newman ... Deeply strange and profoundly subversive, even by the standards of the ...

At the beginning of the ’80s, Randy Newman lacked motivation to ... The two were on the same plane ride when Henley mentioned to Newman how it was strange Los Angeles didn’t have many songs ...

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 ...