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

That first album soon sold 350,000, fueled primarily by word of mouth, especially on college campuses. Most Chicagoans first ...

When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, ...

So farewell, the satirist Tom Lehrer who has died at a ripe old 97. His acidic little ditties shocked and delighted us.

Despite being best known for his humorous and satirical songs, Tom Lehrer, who died on 26 July at the age of 97, spent most ...

The American Jewish singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died July 26 at age 97, drew on Yiddishkeit in his sardonic ditties, ...

Naca’s expertise, personnel, and facilities formed the core of the new space agency. Elements from other military programs, such as the Army Ballistic Missile Agency’s rocket development under Wernher ...

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

Songs like “Who’s Next?” and “Wernher von Braun” made headlines and sparked debates. Lehrer said he found writing satire hard once events outpaced imagination. When reality became absurd, his humor ...

Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very ...

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 ...