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 Chris Willman Thu, October 24, 2024 at 9: ...

TL;DR: Randy Newman played on one of Mick Jagger’s songs. The song was not a Rolling Stones track but it appeared on one of their albums. The track appeared in a classic movie from the 1970s.

For more than 40 years, Randy Newman has been writing songs that cover a prodigious thematic range. What separates the 66-year-old composer from the rest of the pack is that all his work – from ...

Randy Newman doesn't think songs can change anyone's mind about serious issues -- but that hasn't stopped him from trying Updated: Nov. 27, 2011, 11:05 a.m. | Published: Nov. 27, 2011, 10:05 a.m.

Even in 1974, when racist Archie Bunker was the main character on TV’s top-rated show All In ... The best Randy Newman songs unfold like short stories that create entire worlds from just a ...

‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ the Songwriter’s Brilliant but Rarely Produced Stage Musical, Rises Again for a Weekend in L.A. at the Soraya Newman and the show's director talk about bringing the ...

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 ...