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Randall Stuart “Randy†Newman (born November 281943) is an Academy Award–winning United States|American songwriter, arrangement|arranger, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant|mordant (and often satire|satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a “character†far removed from Newman’s own biography, often using the literary device of an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song ''Sail Away (Randy Newman song)|Sail Away'' is written as a slave trader’s sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of ''Political Science (Randy Newman song)|Political Science'' is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution (“Let’s drop the big oneâ€).
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include ''Ragtime (film)|Ragtime'', ''The Natural (film)|The Natural'', ''Toy Story'', ''Meet the Parents'' and ''Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit''. He also scored four other Pixar films: ''A Bug's Life'', ''Toy Story 2'', ''Monsters, Inc.'', and ''Cars (film)|Cars''.
He has also been singled out for a number of awards by his colleagues, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy... read all
Mark Knopfler Live At The Royal Albert Hall 26may2008
