Tom Lehrer, the song satirist whose darkly comic lyrics gained a cult following decades after he stopped making music, has died at the age of 97.

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

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

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

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 popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his ...

Tom Lehrer gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism ,and the Cold War, and then ...

His songs included “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Old Dope Peddler,” “Be Prepared,” in which he mocked the Boy Scouts, ...

Lehrer's foray into the realm of music was a happy accident, born out of a desire to entertain and provoke thought through ...