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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the 1970s, John Lennon produced some of Harry Nilsson’s covers of classic songs. One of them was a version of “Save the Last Dance for Me.” John decided he didn’t care that a famous bubblegum ...

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 ...

When Jimmy Webb wrote “The Highwayman,” the story came after a night of drinking with Harry Nilsson. In the dream, Webb, the singer and songwriter behind Glen Campbell‘s “Wichita Lineman” “Galveston,” ...

The name “Harry Nilsson” typically inspires either a blank stare or a beatific smile — very little in between. Despite being worshipped by the Beatles and envied by other singer-songwriters ever since ...