Randy Newman, Music’s Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer’s Biography
#Variety #News #LennyWaronker #RandyNewman #RobertHilburn

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/randy-newman-biography-robert-hilburn-interview-1236190168/

No Frisbees? At a rock concert? That's right - no wine, no coolers, no beach balls either, no Hare Krishnas, no #Moonies, security everywhere. I suppose it's necessary - being smacked in the eye with a #Frisbee is no fun - but #Woodstock this ain't.

Twenty years of organizing concerts and Graham's people have this to a science. #LosAngelesTimes rock critic #RobertHilburn called it "humane," but it is not spontaneous. Can't be. The trains run on time, period - #BenitoMussolini would have been proud. (p a s) #Byte #Anno1982 #USFestival #SteveWozniak