While attention has doubled back onto the late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson thanks to the integral use of his 1971 tune “Gotta Get Up” into the Netflix hit “Russian Doll,” his knack for getting ...

It's always a good idea to be careful what you wish for, especially if you're a brilliant singer-songwriter with self-destructive tendencies. Harry Nilsson learned that far too well with Nilsson ...

The album Harry Nilsson was working on when he died in 1994 will finally be released on Nov. 22. Titled Losst and Founnd, the LP includes 11 songs produced by collaborator Mark Hudson, with ...

That Nilsson was Harry Nilsson, who was then mostly unknown, still working at a bank while writing songs at RCA’s Hollywood office. Being declared this Beatle’s most famous singer and group had a ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

John Lennon and Harry Nilsson were good friends who often got drunk with one another, especially during Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” period. One person who the pair also spent time with was Alice Cooper.

The late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson is best known for his late-1960s, early-’70s hits “Everybody’s Talkin’,” “Coconut” and “One” and the 1971 animated film The Point!. What is not remembered ...

Songwriters are often labeled quirky for no good reason other than they dare to write songs about topics other than love. Harry Nilsson was often saddled with the “quirky” label for some of the ...

Harry Nilsson was one of pop music’s most gifted eccentrics, blessed with the voice of an angel, the mind of the smartest clown in class, a rare talent for getting inside the emotions of a lyric and ...

Sometime in the early ’90s, Harry Nilsson walked into Warner Bros. with a new batch of demos. This is the man who hit No. 1 with the operatic pop of “Without You,” scored a Grammy with his cover of ...

The only thing we know for sure about new posthumous studio albums from Leonard Cohen, Harry Nilsson, Prince, Arthur Russell and others: Final approval did not come from the artists themselves. At ...

While attention has doubled back onto the late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson thanks to the integral use of his 1971 tune “Gotta Get Up” in the Netflix hit “Russian Doll,” his knack for getting ...