Since leaving his post as one of the nation’s most well-known rock critics, a job he held down at the Los Angeles Times from the late ’60s through 2005, Hilburn has written four books, including the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Randy Newman at home in Pacific Palisades in 2017. The musician and songwriter is the subject of a new biography by former Times ...

It seems that there’s a Randy Newman for all sorts of music listeners. Like acerbic/satirical/edgy/intelligent pop songs? He’s the guy who wrote tunes from the ...

"Randy Newman is our great master of American song and storytelling."--Bruce Springsteen "At last, the biography that Randy Newman has long deserved. The emotional precision, the humor and sweep, the ...

I've been thinking about Newman again lately, spurred by Robert Hilburn's recent biography "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman." Hilburn, the former chief music ...

Were you considering different people to follow up your biographies of Paul Simon and Johnny Cash, or was it inevitably Newman? I realized that of all the time I spent at the L.A. Times and the great ...

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. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) In ...

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 the ...