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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
And people often ask, what's your favorite Randy Newman song? It's so hard ... It's always those things you hear when you're younger and they mean so much to you, and you just don't care as ...
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Randy Newman's iconic 'I Love L.A.' opened the Grammys. Here's how the performance came together
The last three and a half weeks have convinced Griffin Goldsmith that he might, as he puts it, be “living in a simulation.” On Jan. 8, the drummer of the rootsy Los Angeles rock band Dawes ...
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All-Star Rendition of Randy Newman’s ‘I Love L.A.’ Opens Grammys
In 2014, Newman admitted the song was a love letter to Los Angeles, warts and all. “There’s some kind of ignorance L.A. has that I’m proud of. The open car and the redhead, the Beach Boys ...
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10 things we learned from Randy Newman’s Mastertapes
Two Academy Awards, six Grammys, 200,000 (by his own, admittedly shaky, estimation) devoted fans, Randy Newman thoroughly ... The precocious Randy started young. He was a tunesmith for hire ...
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A half-century of Randy Newman classics
Pianist, composer and singer-songwriter Randy Newman started out writing songs for other artists, and not always with success. Frank Sinatra famously rejected all his musical offerings.
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Randy Newman: “I’m slowly realising just how stupid I am!”
Originally published in Uncut's Take 178 It might surprise you to learn that Randy Newman has only ever bought “around 50” pop records in his life. “Most of my collection is classical ...