A s a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also ...

Over the course of 11 solo albums released between 1968 and 2017, Newman has written memorably, movingly, comically and, at times, shockingly about the American experience.

Listening closely to the music he has made over many decades in all its varied forms, I’ve since come to accept that Randy Newman’s greatest work is indeed awfully hard to like. But I think ...

Over a 60-year career, ... The Biography of Randy Newman’ by Robert Hilman is out now in hardback, eBook and Audio (£25, Constable) More about Music Randy Newman America Pixar.