Harry Nilsson
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Harry Nilsson: Son Of Schmilsson
Review by David Rensin, Phonograph Record, September 1972
WELL, WELL. Harry Nilsson has sure thrown a big pebble into the music puddle. There's not much to say about the things you hear in ...
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Profile by uncredited writer, World Countdown News, 1968
WHEN NILSSON was signed as an exclusive RCA Victor recording artist, Ernest Altschuler, Division Vice President and Executive Artists and Repertoire Producer, said: "He is ...
Nilsson: An Underground Artist Surfaces
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968
NILSSON IS a new singer-composer who is wholly unique. It is totally superfluous to compare him to anyone else on the pop scene today, for ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1968
Love's Third Album Out on Elektra ...
Nilsson: Aerial Ballet (RCA Victor)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1968
A Second Helping of Nilsson Songs ...
Harry Nilsson: Computers to Composer
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 28 September 1968
SOMETIMES – not very often – but sometimes. What? Sometimes exciting things happen in pop music. Talents emerge that are new, refreshing. A shot in ...
Harry Nilsson: Aerial Ballet (RCA Victor)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969
MY FEELING persists that Harry Nilsson, very good, could be a great deal more than very good if only he could manage not to construct ...
Nilsson — The Complete Opposite of a Pop Star
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 October 1969
NICE GUY Nilsson remains — as ever — a nice guy... And in a pop world which occasionally tends to suffer a little too much ...
Everybody's Talkin' ‘Bout Harry Nilsson
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Fusion, 12 December 1969
FEW SINGERS COULD have found a more aptly-named success vehicle than Nilsson's current hit record, 'Everybody's Talkin'', which is featured so persuasively in the film ...
Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 17 February 1972
IS NILSSON just an old-school crooner in modern dress? Is he a writer of children's songs who wants to broaden his appeal? And why does ...
Harry Nilsson: Come Out, Harry, The Time Is Right
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 March 1972
NILSSON filled Trident studios with old people to help record 'I'd Rather Be Dead' for his album. The song is a "lively, up-tempo number about ...
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Knees Up
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
THE PINNER contingent were no match for the notorious East Enders from Stepney, London, even though they did outnumber them 42 to 12. ...
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 8 April 1972
Producer Richard Perry talks to Lon Goddard ...
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmaltzson
Report and Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973
STUDIO ONE at De Lane Lea studios in Wembley is a massive room; big enough to hold close to a 50-piece orchestra. Most of the ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 5 August 1973
Harry? He's Lost in the Woodwinds ...
Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night
Review by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, September 1973
HERE IS AN IDEA whose time should never have come. Harry Nilsson's newest album, produced by Derek Taylor and arranged by Gordon Jenkins, is a ...
Lurching Lennon: Beatle Bounced
Report by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, June 1974
WHAT IS happening to John Lennon? Last month it was the infamous Kotex caper. Recently the former Beatle with the mellow voice was at it ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 31 August 1974
Rock verite — the Beatrix Potter way ...
Nilsson Ratings: Injured, Brilliant
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April 1975
NOTE: The interview had to wait until we watched the latest episode of the PBS series, The Ascent of Man. I asked Harry about the ...
Harry Nilsson: Duit On Mon Dei
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 3 July 1975
HARRY NILSSON hasn't made a good album since '71's Nilsson Schmilsson, the recording that brought him the sales and critical esteem he'd deserved all along. ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Record Producers', BBC Books, 1982
IF ANY PRODUCER could be said to have an instantly identifiable sound, aside from the obvious case of Phil Spector, it would be Richard Perry. ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, November 1985
Doctor of Applied Song Medicine, Studio Psychology, R&B Analysis and Chart Metallurgy... ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1993
2010 note: Harry Nilsson succumbed to heart failure and died on January 15, 1994, less than six months after this interview took place. ...
Singer, Songwriter, Fab-Across-The-Water 1941-1994
Obituary by Derek Taylor, MOJO, 1994
John and Paul were asked to name their favourite artist. "Nilsson." And band? "Nilsson." ...
A Roundhead in a Pointy-Head World: The Tragedy of Harry Nilsson
Retrospective by Erik Himmelsbach, Rock's Backpages, December 2007
IT WAS A brisk fall day in 1978 when the stretch limo appeared like a sore thumb onto a tenement block of Brooklyn's downtrodden Bushwick ...
Going Under: John Lennon's Lost Weekend
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, February 2010
Separated from Yoko, at war with McCartney, his phone tapped by the US government... by 1974 JOHN LENNON was a mess. The solution: hook up ...
For the love of Harry: Nilsson documentary finally hits the big screen
Report and Interview by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 10 September 2010
I'VE BEEN WAITING for this day for a long time. Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? opens today at the ...
Harry Nilsson: I Sang My Balls Off For You, Baby!
Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, September 2013
"I'D JUST CALL Harry Nilsson a genius," says Van Dyke Parks. "And by the way, I haven't met any others. He redefined what a song ...
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