There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms ...

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97, wrote and performed such subversive ditties as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The ...

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

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

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

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured ...

Tom Lehrer, a mathematician and satirist whose musical influence peaked in the 1950s and ’60s with his topical songs, died ...

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

Tom Lehrer, the renowned Cold War-era musical satirist whose jaunty and grim show tunes inspired generations, has died. Per ...

Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to news ...