The famed comedic singer served two years in the Army, and hid references to his music in his work in the NSA.

The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

Singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, a satirist who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s for his acerbic take on politics and social life, has died, according to reports. He was 97. Lehrer died on ...

Yet, in truth, satire—at least satire of great quality—lives just as long as any other kind of art. It keeps its objects ...

American musician and satirist Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97, according to US media reports. Lehrer, a Harvard-trained ...

Tom Lehrer, a mathematician and satirist whose musical influence peaked in the 1950s and ’60s with his topical songs, died Saturday. He was 97. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his ...

Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97, wrote and performed such subversive ditties as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The Masochism Tango, and was a sensation during the satire boom of the 1950s.

The news of Tom Lehrer's death was confirmed by his friend David Herder, who indicated that the musician died at his home in Cambridge ...

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.

Tom Lehrer retired from singing and performing in 1967. His idea was to perform to audiences and get a good recording of the ...

SILVERMAN: Tom Lehrer said that in a 1997 interview with NPR. He actually had no need to write funny songs or any songs. He was fully employed as a math professor.

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, ...