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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

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Randy Newman
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
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Randall Stuart Newman
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