New York, July 28 -- Tom Lehrer, the sardonic American musical satirist whose biting wit and macabre humour punctuated the socio-political landscape of the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to US media reports.
His death was confirmed by long-time friend David Herder to The New York Times.
Born in Manhattan in 1928, Lehrer was a polymath who seamlessly straddled the disparate realms of mathematical academia and cabaret subversion. A Harvard-educated mathematician, he graduated at just 18 and pursued postgraduate studies at Columbia and Harvard, all while moonlighting as an avant-garde musical provocateur whose piano ditties lacerated the moral pretensions of the age, reports BBC.
Lehrer's most enduring songs include T...