Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of political and social satire whose influence could be discerned decades later in ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...

Singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who gained prominence for his political satire, has reportedly died at the age of 97.

If you’ve ever laughed at a satirical song, whether watching a panel show, a live comedy gig or on Radio 4, there’s a good chance that it would not have existed without Tom Lehrer, the brilliant ...

What made Lehrer unique was his dual identity as both an entertainer and academic. Despite his success in music, he chose to ...

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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.

Lehrer was found dead in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home on Saturday, aged 97. He was a cult figure more than a smash success, a public figure who spent much of his life out of ...

The legendary satirist who rose to fame in the ’50s and ’60s with darkly funny songs about war, politics, and society has ...

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

The album I played, recorded live in 1965, is Lehrer’s best, and even its title, “That Was the Year That Was,” illustrates the preservative properties of satire; it riffs on the title of a ...