Harry Nilsson once gave The Monkees a number of songs. One of the songs became the title track of one of the Prefab Four’s albums. Subsequently, Peter Tork said the song made more sense in the context ...

Gladys Nilsson was beaming. On a recent afternoon the artist—a member of the Chicago group the Hairy Who, a once-fringe movement that’s increasingly beloved—was strolling through the galleries at ...

She is her own manager, books her own tours and has never had a publicist. And her latest album features a song about communism in the style of Madonna’s “Vogue.” By Shaad D’Souza Nothing in this ...

Harry Nilsson was kicking around New York's pop scene, writing songs with Phil Spector and others, before "Everybody's Talkin'," which he didn't write, became a Top 10 hit, thanks to its appearance in ...

You could be a pessimist and view Harry Nilsson through the lens of missed opportunities and squandered talent. Or you can be grateful that we were exposed to his unique brilliance, if only ...

Ringo Starr called him “his best friend.” John Lennon said he was “my favorite group.” He was Harry Nilsson and although he was one of the greatest singers and songwriters of the ’60s and ’70s, he’s ...

Nilsson performed “Tosca” numerous times in her career. See rare footage of her with her 1968 co-star, Italian lyric tenor Gianni Raimondi, and hear Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo describe performing a ...

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 ...

Had Badfinger chosen to release “Without You” as a single, maybe they’d be the ones most closely associated with the song. Or had Nilsson not heard it at a party and taken a liking to it (initially ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. Around this time last year, Molly Nilsson was ...

Tonya Nilsson has received Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at Santa Clara University. Previously, she was on the faculty at California ...