The musician opens up to PEOPLE about his latest album 'Big Money' Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...

Randy Newman hadn’t been doing much singing when he got a cold call from Jon Batiste. The musicians had met a decade earlier and spent some time together, but time went by, and they drifted apart. Now ...

Did you know that dreams really do come true in New Orleans? Disney’s The Princess and the Frog tells us that if we dream big and work hard, nothing is impossible. When creating Tiana, the animators ...

Allow me to pull the curtain back on the way that this particular website operates during the holidays. Once we finalize all our year-end lists, things tend to get way slower around here, and Scott ...

The musical score of a film can really make it or break it. It can be the difference between making the film a cult classic or a complete catastrophe. So, the role of the film composer is really quite ...

Randy Newman is one of the boldest singer/songwriters ever to have had a major-label record deal, and by 1983 he was a lyrical satirist with few true peers. His character studies have sometimes been ...

Mark Kelegian, owner and CEO of Randy’s Donuts, calls his brand an icon. It’s a lofty but accurate description. The original drive-in shop in Inglewood, California, has been around for more than seven ...

A Los Angeles equestrian estate whose neighbors include actors Ben Affleck, Ed O’Neill and Christian Bale and singer-songwriter Randy Newman has just come on the market for the first time in over six ...

Un Samedi en Décembre captured Randy playing a career-spanning selection of his songs, mostly solo on piano. He was accompanied on a few tunes by a string section. Among the songs he performed were ...

Update: The start of ALDS Game 3 between the Mariners and Tigers in Detroit has been delayed due to rain. Here’s the latest. The Mariners might not have Seattle’s home-field advantage on Tuesday, but ...

Randy Lynn Rider, 60, of Hagerstown, MD, passed away, Thursday, September 25, 2025, at his home. Born Thursday, April 1, 1965, in Hagerstown, MD, he was the son of the late Robert Wayne Rider Sr. and ...