Randy Newman is a songwriter who has never been afraid to write from the perspective of those who are hard to admire and even harder to trust. This kind of protagonist is the one doing the lovey-dovey ...

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, ...

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 ...