For the last 55 years or so, you've had a friend in Randy Newman ... But the case for Newman as popular music's greatest social commentators is the one being pressed most of all by critic-turned ...

Originally published in Uncut's Take 178 It might surprise you to learn that Randy Newman has only ever bought “around 50” pop records in his life. “Most of ... one of my songs I’ve ...

But he makes it clear that, while being proud of his work, those songs probably wouldn’t make it on to a Randy Newman solo album. “You think I’d write You’ve Got a Friend in Me?

We couldn't be more proud and excited to acquire Randy's catalog of beautiful, witty, and sharply observational songs." Newman has won seven Grammys, three Emmys and two Oscars over a career that ...