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 ...

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 ...

Popular music lost one if its most original and criminally unheralded voices on Jan. 15, 1994. But really, Harry Nilsson was long gone before he died of heart failure at the young age of 52. It had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Nilsson possessed immense musical talent and an almost willful disregard for his career trajectory. Blessed with a voice for which the overused term “angelic” is actually apropos, and ...

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 ...

Two of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century were born in Sweden a century ago, within a few weeks of each other. The first to arrive was Astrid Varnay, on April 25, 1918; after her, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joining a month-long celebration of Women’s History Month, Great Performances: Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own is a performance-documentary celebrating the life and career of the era-defining ...