When Taylor Swift dropped the track listing to the deluxe edition of The Life of a Showgirl earlier this month, the title that jumped out to most people was “Cleveland!” This came not long after news ...

His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book. By Bob Mehr Around the summer of ...

At the first show of his Lights of Autumn European tour, Dylan played Newman's classic "Louisiana 1927," Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues," and a radically re-worked "Tangled Up In Blue" ...

Were you considering different people to follow up your biographies of Paul Simon and Johnny Cash, or was it inevitably Newman? I realized that of all the time I spent at the L.A. Times and the great ...

Bob Dylan heeft bij het begin van zijn Europese tournee voor het eerst een nummer van Randy Newman gezongen. De 85-jarige ...

Today, many know the clever songwriter, lyricist, and piano player Randy Newman for his hit song in the Pixar Toy Story franchise, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” Others might think he’s the neighbor on ...

There is no name in film music that carries as much cachet as “Newman.” I can prove it: you probably don’t know which Newman I’m talking about. While John Williams has an impressive 52 Oscar ...

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. In 1968, in a studio in California, one of the great political satirists sat ...

Back in the fall of 1995, Randy Newman was a 52-year-old veteran singer-songwriter, known more for songs that told stories, often sung as a character. He was also a multiple Oscar-nominated composer ...