Is Randy Newman the Old Eminem?
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2003
The funniest and least sentimental songwriter in America has revisited his back pages on The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 1. BARNEY HOSKYNS asks him about his career, his humour, and his abiding love for flawed people.
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