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 ...

Private Playlist is a listening session with Southern California’s most notable musical figures in their private creative environments. A native son of Goleta, CA, Ruben Zarate received his education ...

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 ...

As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" Whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to ...

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 ...

This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. Last Friday, the documentary, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him) opened in LA at the Laemmle Sunset 5. For those who may ...

Harry Nilsson's concept album The Point turns fifty this year; to celebrate, the 1971 animated film adapted from the music will be released digitally and on BluRay for the first time. Nilsson, a ...

Twenty-five years after Harry Nilsson died from a heart attack, a new posthumous album, Losst and Founnd, has been assembled from material he recorded in the latter stages of his career. Amazingly, it ...

The members of the Beatles were early champions of Harry Nilsson’s music, and the Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter’s early albums spun off massive chart hits like 1969’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” and ...

Harry Styles seems to be cribbing from another famous Harry in his new video for “Adore You”: Harry Nilsson. The cheeky, weird and magical video echoes, in part, Nilsson’s equally storybook-esque ...