Randy Newman’s ingenious lyricism earned him devoted fans but not mainstream success. His turn to Hollywood would bring wider recognition.

The musical score of a film can really make it or break it. It can be the difference between making the film a cult classic ...

Randy Newman shuffled onstage like he was walking into his optometrist’s office: black pants, black bowling shirt, chunky sneakers meant to provide some comfort should he have to wait anywhere ...

“Randy Newman is a national treasure,” said Eagles co-founder and longtime friend Don Henley. “He’s also probably the most misunderstood and underappreciated recording artist alive.

Randy Newman: I don’t have much visual imagination, so when I look at a storyboard, I can’t interpolate the whole picture and figure out what it’s gonna be.

“Randy Newman’s Faust,” the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the dean of barbed American singer-songwriters, has never been produced in its creator’s hometown before.

It’s a little too easy to point out that 73-year-old Randy Newman’s first album in nine years, Dark Matter, coincides with a moment in which bigoted blowhards have taken over the country.If ...

Randy Newman: Ugh, I remember that. I was worried you were going to get electrocuted. I was hoping to get electrocuted.. I see you have a slew of tour dates planned for Australia and Europe soon.

Randy Newman knows what it’s like to be confused. “Sometimes at the movies I’ve gotta ask my kids what the hell’s going on,” said the veteran songwriter and Oscar-winning film composer.