Harry Nilsson’s cover of Randy Newman’s ‘Sail Away’ and Nina Simone’s cover of The Beatles’ ‘Here Comes the Sun’. Jermaine Clement had previously discussed his favourite songs in a guest DJ spot with ...

When folks under the age of 35 hear the name Randy Newman ... However, those who are more familiar with Newman’s discography might recall his more politically engaged track, ‘Sail Away’, which ...

Take Randy Newman, for instance. Speaking about Wilson’s work ... When celebrating Newman’s 1971 classic Sail Away and hailing its involvement amid his five favourites, Wilson went one step further ...

Not that many people in Randy’s class.” Randy Newman (Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot / Alamy) Dylan has even pointed out his favourite Newman period in the past, stating: “I like his early songs, ‘Sail ...

The same question could be asked of Randy Newman, and he has himself quipped that the generation ... At the time, Newman’s most recent album was the 1972 masterpiece Sail Away, and his next album – ...

At the start of the ’70s, Randy Newman was building a reputation ... his talents as a writer and performer. When he made Sail Away in 1972, he leaned into a style of writing that few other ...

There’s quite a few people who did it. Not that many people in Randy’s class.” Dylan has even pointed out his favourite Newman period in the past, stating: “I like his early songs, ‘Sail Away,’ ‘Burn ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys ... as perceptive and often as darkly hilarious as “Sail Away,” “Baltimore,” “Louisiana 1927” and “It’s Money That ...

Hilburn works best as a researcher who can contextualise Newman’s more historically and conceptually ambitious works: the slaver-shyster saga Sail Away ... to write them a Randy Newman type ...

Randy Newman has fun getting under such people ... Perhaps the greatest example is “Sail Away,” recorded in 1972. As the strings of an orchestra swell behind him, a slave trader eager ...

That’s a Randy Newman song, too. His multitudes contain ... “12 Songs” (1970), “Sail Away” (1972) and “Good Old Boys” (1974). Deeply strange and profoundly subversive, even by ...