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.

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and mathematician whose darkly comic songs skewered politics, culture, and human folly in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 96.

Lehrer’s satirical song, Wernher von Braun, from his last album, That Was the Year That Was, was released in 1965. It was rumored that the famous Rocket scientist took legal action against Lehrer for ...

Like so many comedians, Lehrer got his start by going to Harvard. He wrote and recorded his first song, “Fight Fiercely Harvard,” at the age of 17. Lehrer entered the mainstream in the 60’s, ...

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

<p>In the beginning, there was the name. A prophet guided Errol Musk to bestow it on his eldest son, or so he claimed. The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for ...

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.

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...