Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist, most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. For most of his recordings, he did not use his first name, and was credited only as Nilsson. Despite some spectacular successes, including two Grammy Awards and two Top 10 singles, Nilsson's tendency to make broad stylistic jumps from one record to the next and his iconoclastic decisions kept him from capitalizing on those successes. Among his most well-known recordings are "Without You", "Everybody's Talkin'" (theme from the movie Midnight Cowboy) and "Coconut".

Harry Nilsson (sometimes credited simply as Nilsson) was an american singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist from Brooklyn, NY. Though two of his biggest chart hits were written by other writers ( Everybody’s Talkin by Fred Neil and Without You by Pete Ham of Badfinger ) he was a talented songwriter too, having written the song One, later performed by Three Dog Night to great success. He also performed an entire album’s worth of material written by Randy Newman , a friend and influence on his ow