The New York Times

Randy Newman Is Great. He Deserved a Better Biography Than This.

A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
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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

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 ...
American Songwriter

Randy Newman Doesn’t Love This Lyric of His, but We Do

We can all agree that music is a subjective enterprise, with personal taste determining what’s good and what’s not for each listener. As it turns out, that theory can also apply to an artist who is ...

The one genre Randy Newman would delete from history: “If one thing had to go”

Randy Newman is one of music's finest misanthropes and once revealed the surprising genre he "would eliminate" if he could.