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 ...
Harry Nilsson's melodic pop music endeared him to the Beatles and won him the admiration of everyone from Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to Carly Rae Jepsen. But ask someone on the street if they ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Aisha Harris Spoilers ahead for the first season of “Russian Doll.” In the new Netflix series “Russian Doll,” Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), a cynical ...
Harry Nilsson was in poor health, low on money, two decades removed from his last song on the music charts, and unable to get a record deal. Yet he was determinedly writing songs again, recording ...
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 ...
"Gotta Get Up" joins the short list of Nilsson tracks from the 1970s that have become timeless soundtrack and advertising perennials. Harry Nilsson’s catalog is a bit of a Russian doll itself: Anyone ...
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The members of the Beatles were early champions of Harry Nilsson’s music ...
Ringo Starr knew something special was about to happen. It was September 4, 1992, and his All-Starr Band was joined on stage in Las Vegas by one of the most unlikeliest stars of them all: Harry ...