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Tom Lehrer

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About Tom Lehrer

Thomas Andrew Lehrer was an American musician. He recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies.

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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people invo…
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.