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.

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

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 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 ...

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

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.

Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very small one, and as such, we feel sure Tom Lehrer was the greatest who ever ...

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, ...

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 ...

During a podcast, Scooter Braun revealed whether he believed Taylor Swift actually wrote a song about him for her album "Midnights." ...