FILE - Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., on April 21, 2000. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who ...
Tom Lehrer, the influential song satirist whose darkly comic lyrics gained a cult following decades after he stopped making music, has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge, ...
Before there were satirical songwriters like Weird Al Yankovic, there was Tom Lehrer, who wrote delightful and funny songs like Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The Masochism Tango. He was hilarious ...
Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic ‘60s TV news show "That Was the Week That Was," has ...