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Tom Lehrer: the droll dissenter who revelled in bad taste
Before Tom Lehrer opened his mouth, he seemed the image of decency. Sitting at the piano in a tux as sharp as his jawline, looking a little nerdy with his slicked-back hair, large-framed glasses and ...
Musical Impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh Pays Tribute To "Wickedly Witty" Tom Lehrer
EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered ...
Tom Lehrer shut up far too early
Tom Lehrer died on Saturday, aged 97. His album That Was the Year That Was records a live performance, including his ...
Here’s every mention of Harvard in the lyrics of Tom Lehrer
Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.
I discovered Tom Lehrer in high school. His transgressive black humor hooked me.
Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self ...
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A voice for his generation, Tom Lehrer found laughter even in the most sensitive aspects of Jewish life and history
The American Jewish singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died July 26 at age 97, drew on Yiddishkeit in his sardonic ditties, although perhaps not always as explicitly as some Jewish fans might have ...
Tom Lehrer was the face of the real 1950s
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 ...