Bob Dylan kicked off his Lights of Autumn Tour Saturday evening at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, with a stunning set that featured rarities, surprise covers, new arrangements of old favorites, ...

Most songs about love fall into two categories. Some come from the perspective of someone who has just lost their love and is lamenting their sorrow. Others celebrate loves that are currently in bloom ...

Famous “we love it” chorus from Randy Newman's “i love l.a.” features a group of legendary musicians gathered around one microphone. The conversation recalls the recording session, including Jeff ...

The rights and royalty deals just keep on rolling, as Randy Newman recently sold his music catalog to Litmus Records. Newman joins a highly exclusive group of musicians such as Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Pixar was almost the anti-Disney, that they didn't want to do musicals, or princess movies, or have magic and those types of ...

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 ...

The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for some 15 years on an original retelling of ...

Litmus Music said Thursday that it has acquired Randy Newman’s share of his recorded music and publishing catalog. The deal includes rights to the scores of the composer-singer-songwriter’s ...

As a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also around this time that his life started to slide sideways. He suffered from ...