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

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

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

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

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

A Mathematician By Training, He Acquired A Devoted Following With Songs That Set Sardonic Lyrics To Music That Was Often ...

I grew up in an English cultural environment in which the old British stiff Upper Lip class-riden society was being ...

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

Tom Lehrer died on Saturday, aged 97. His album That Was the Year That Was records a live performance, including his introductory stage backchat to his own songs. At one point, he says, “It is a ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 - Tom Lehrer, a popular song satirist in the 1950s and ’60s who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely ...

Tom Lehrer, the celebrated American song satirist who lampooned politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching mathematics at Harvard and other ...