Tom Lehrer, the extremely influential American satirist and singer-songwriter, has died on the age of 97.
Selection have reported that Lehrer’s buddies say he was discovered lifeless in his dwelling in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Saturday (July 26).
He was broadly recognised for his incisive, darkly comedic songs that focused the politics and society of ‘50s and ‘60s American life, and he has been cited as a key affect on the work of the likes of Randy Newman, ‘Bizarre Al’ Yankovic and The Simpsons.
After establishing himself on the underground beatnik circuit within the Nineteen Fifties, he rose to better prominence together with his common contributions to NBC’s That Was The Week That Was, the US spin-off of the landmark David Frost-fronted BBC satirical present.
Lehrer was snug difficult social taboos of the day in his songs, together with drug habit (‘The Previous Dope Peddler’), militant patriotism (‘It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier’), nuclear proliferation (‘So Lengthy Mother’) and sexuality (‘The Masochism Tango’).
Born in New York on April 9, 1928, he started enjoying piano at a younger age and was accepted into Harvard on the age of 15. Whereas finding out for a doctorate in arithmetic within the early ‘50s, he recorded his debut album ‘Songs Of Tom Lehrer’ in 1953, which turned a cult hit within the Boston space and bought 10,000 copies.
He continued in larger schooling all through his grownup life, turning into a professor in arithmetic at Harvard and later at UC Santa Cruz.
In 2022, Lehrer’s enduring legacy was revealed when Yankovic informed NME that he determined that Daniel Radcliffe was the best man to play him in Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story when he noticed the Harry Potter star performing Lehrer’s ‘The Components Music’ on The Graham Norton Present.
Lehrer by no means married and leaves no youngsters.
