Randy Newman has announced a series of international ‘An Evening
With Randy Newman’ tour dates for 2020, beginning with Australia and
New Zealand in January and February (his first tour of Australia since
2011, and his first ever tour of New Zealand). These tour dates
follow the release of Dark Matter, Newman’s first album of new
material in a decade, which includes the Grammy-winning
song ‘Putin’. Nonesuch Records
released Dark Matter, the follow-up to 2008’s
best-selling Harps and Angels, in August 2017 to widespread critical
acclaim. ‘A collection of mordant musical entertainments that
moves deftly from the sharply political to the deeply personal,
from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Putin to songs of love and death
that glide gracefully and cut deep,’ wrote Mojo, which rated it one
of the best albums of the year, as did Uncut magazine, who
proclaimed ‘Each satirical sketch is lavishly arranged like a
miniature film score, with multiple characters, shifting points of
view and dramatic lurches in musical style.’ In the words
of theDaily Telegraph, ‘Newman has made an album that is a match
for anything in his canon. Both topical and timeless.’ Newman
began recording in 1968 with a self-titled album.
Throughout the 1970s, he released several other acclaimed albums
such as 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. He began
composing and scoring for films in the 1980s, and his work includes
all four Toy Story pictures, A Bug’s Life, Cars and Cars 3.
In addition to Dark Matter, most recently Nonesuch
released The Randy Newman Songbook, comprising solo recordings of
songs from throughout Newman’s five-decade career. His many
honours include seven Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards, as
well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted
into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 2013 – the same year he was given an Ivor Novello
PRS for Music Special International Award. Newman also was presented
with a PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in
2014. In 2018 he collaborated with Rex Orange County on his version
of Newman’s ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’, and in 2019, in
addition to Toy Story 4, he collaborated with Chance The Rapper
on ‘5 Year Plan’ for the album The Big Day. Tickets go on
sale on Monday August 26, and further information can be found
at randynewman.com.
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