We don’t talk enough about Randy Newman as a singer and a maker of pop ... Newman’s lyric — delivered, he tells us, from beyond the grave — is tender and funny, with just enough outrage.

We didn’t always have a friend in Randy Newman … or, if we did ... who sings a lament from the grave about how another guy stole his name and career; it’s the most outlandish-sounding ...

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 ...

For me, A Few Words in Defense of Our Nation comes freighted with an unexpected resonance: it acts as a memorial for an ... song generator to write them a Randy Newman type satirical number ...

In the early nineteen-seventies, when the Rolling Stones were at the height of their powers, the American singer-songwriter, composer, and pianist Randy Newman was taking a less conventional ...