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Article: Randy Newman's peers show admiration on tribute album.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2006
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Byline: Shay Quillen
Some people come to a Randy Newman show expecting to hear one of the gentle, reassuring numbers he's written for movies, like "You've Got a Friend in Me" from "Toy Story." But while he'll usually perform one of those soundtrack songs onstage, most of the material in the show is designed to provoke, not comfort.
"I play the one song," he says, "and then they heckle me for the rest of the show."
Newman, 62, is on the phone from his hotel room in France, where he performed at the Nice Jazz Festival as a much louder Kanye West played nearby. ("Jesus walked through half my show," Newman cracks, referring to the rapper's 2004 ...