Don Henley was the ultimate LA artist, but he decided Randy Newman was the man to pen a song about the City of Angels. Read ...
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 the ...
We couldn't be more proud and excited to acquire Randy's catalog of beautiful, witty, and sharply observational songs." Newman has won seven Grammys, three Emmys and two Oscars over a career that ...
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.
(Randy’s uncle Alfred Newman alone wrote more than 200 scores and got 45 Oscar nominations.) Through the scale of their ...
But he makes it clear that, while being proud of his work, those songs probably wouldn’t make it on to a Randy Newman solo album. “You think I’d write You’ve Got a Friend in Me?
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 ...
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 ...