The 81-year-old songwriter and composer is the subject of a new biography by former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn.

Randy Newman has fun getting under such people ... he embraces: “This is my country / These are my people / And I know ’em like the back of my own hand.” I think Newman would nod in ...

At the start of the ’70s, Randy Newman was building a reputation as a songwriter whose work could be covered by a wide swath of artists. But he wasn’t receiving a lot of hype as an artist in ...

Randy Newman received an upright piano ... from the point of view of speakers much like themselves, Mr. Newman was digging at ...

Disillusioned, they might ask some AI song generator to write them a Randy Newman type satirical number suitable for Spotify’s yacht rock playlist. Call it Not OK Boomer. Peter Murphy is the ...

most notably Alfred Newman (Wuthering Heights, How Green Was My Valley). Even Randy’s own father wanted to follow those footsteps but was dissuaded for fear of too many family members in one ...