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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 not me," and he's got an alibi. Some of his characters, he emphasizes with more than some others, where ...
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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 ... Often these characters couldn’t be relied upon to tell the entire ...
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Randy Newman – Dark Matter
After each scientific argument is ridiculed by gospel-singing believers, the characters in the song turn on “Randy Newman” himself (“A self-described atheist and communist”) for ...