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Randy Newman

January 2023

  • Randy Newman in 1978.

    Ranked
    Randy Newman’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    As Trouble in Paradise – which gave the world I Love LA – turns 40, we celebrate the satirical singer-songwriter’s best work

August 2022

  • Mo Ostin, c1970.

    Mo Ostin, US record exec who signed Jimi Hendrix and the Kinks, dies aged 95

    Headhunted by Frank Sinatra, the head of Warner/Reprise oversaw classic releases by the likes of Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Prince

February 2021

  • Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released.

    'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry

    James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece

March 2020

  • Caspar Llewellyn Smith

    Why playlists are getting me through anxious times

    Caspar Llewellyn Smith
    New technologies are helping us reach out to one another in these troubled times. And what doesn’t make the list is just as important as what does

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

January 2018

  • Lunch With Randy Newman illustration OFM Observer Food Monthly

    Lunch with...
    Randy Newman: ‘I've written a song about Trump and Ivanka – but it needs a little work’

    The great songwriter talks about politics, Toy Story and the Smiths – and why he’s never enjoyed the writing process

September 2017

  • Randy Newman

    30 minutes with …
    Randy Newman: 'I would never not play You've Got a Friend in Me'

    The singer is back with his first album in nine years, complete with songs about Putin and medical research. But he still plays the Toy Story tear-jerkers too

August 2017

  • Randy Newman at home in California, July 2017.

    Randy Newman: Dark Matter review – not dark enough

  • Still putting the boot in … Randy Newman.

    Randy Newman: Dark Matter review – classy song satirist still bites

July 2017

  • Political scientist... Randy Newman performing in 2008.

    Randy Newman writes comic song about Donald Trump's penis

  • AFI's 43rd Life Achievement Award Gala honoring Steve Martin, Los Angeles, America - 04 Jun 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock (4822794ak) Randy Newman AFI's 43rd Life Achievement Award Gala honoring Steve Martin, Los Angeles, America - 04 Jun 2015

    The week in radio: Randy Newman’s America; Wimbledon; Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: The Days of Anna Madrigal

November 2016

  • Snapshot … Lady Ethel with her sons, William, left, Robert, right, and Noel, who died of a meningitis not long after this photo was taken, aged eight.

    Family life
    Family life: The too-short lives of the Semple boys, Randy Newman’s Political Science, and golden butterscotch

    Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes

December 2015

  • Bruce Springsteen in concert

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs that aren't what they seem

    Ambiguous, misunderstood or misappropriated, suggest your selection of works with words taken the wrong way either by accident or on purpose, says Peter Kimpton

November 2015

  • Randy Newman at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

    Randy Newman review – a great American songbook all by himself

    The self-deprecating singer played two hours’ worth of subtle character pieces and droll narratives of a kind that nobody else can write

August 2015

  • Randy Newman performs We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 at the Oscars in 2011.

    Comedy heroes
    All comedians have a friend in Randy Newman

    Don’t be fooled by the slurred, common-man delivery: the writer of Short People and other staples is one of music’s sharpest satirists, capable of duping even his targets with his deceptively simple songs

December 2013

  • Rockstar Doodles

    Rock, paper, crayons: famous musicians' drawings – in pictures

    When asked for a doodle, famous musicians – from Leonard Cohen to Meat Loaf, and Randy Newman to Bryan Ferry – produced some surprisingly revealing artwork. Richard Williams looks at the results

February 2013

  • Adele poses in the Golden Globes press room, singing into her globe, after winning best original song in a motion picture award for Skyfall.

    Music blog
    Adele and her Oscars competition

  • matthew e white 2

    Matthew E White: 'You hear the community I love in the music'

December 2012

  • Public Enemy

    Public Enemy, Donna Summer and Rush for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    Heart, Albert King and Randy Newman also among inductees, but Kraftwerk miss out on being institution's first all-synthesiser act

May 2012

  • Randy Newman at the Royal Festival Hall, London

    Rumer's old music
    Rumer's old music: Randy Newman - Marie

    It takes a while to get to grips with Randy Newman – the lovely music is tempered by the singer's vile narrators

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