Randy Newman wrote with no filter even when addressing his personal life. "I Miss You" address his first marriage with honesty and heart.

Randy Newman returned to late-night television with a performance of his 1972 song “Political Science” on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.

Randy Newman is a songwriter who has never been afraid to write from the perspective of those who are hard to admire and even harder to trust. This kind of protagonist is the one doing the lovey ...

Said Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it’s some of the most formative music of my life. But I’m also a massive Lakers and Dodgers fan.

Examining the Lyrics of “Political Science” “Political Science” displays Randy Newman’s ability to couch his barbed messages in benign music.

Randy Newman at home in Pacific Palisades in 2017. The musician and songwriter is the subject of a new biography by former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn.

Randy Newman’s scathing satire of America is his life’s work – and never more relevant than now Over a 60-year career, the singer-songwriter and ‘Toy Story’ composer has chronicled ...

Randy Newman has fun getting under such people’s skin. The irony about this virtuoso of political irony is that his best-known works are entirely apolitical.

Randy Newman has been a great exception to this unhappy norm. He has never explicitly identified with any ideological tendency, preferring to let his music express his thoughts, he tells Robert ...

The acerbic musical commentator Randy Newman gets a big book of his life - and "Short People" is just a tiny part of his story.

In “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Robert Hilburn—a former pop-music critic for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a number of biographies, including a study of Johnny Cash ...

Randy Newman is the subject of a new biography, 'A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,' from longtime Los Angeles Times music critic Robert Hilburn.