Overview

• Lehrer was found dead at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 26 with no cause of death disclosed.
• He gained national recognition in the 1960s for his dark topical songs on NBC’s That Was the Week That Was.
• His 1965 album That Was the Year That Was climbed to No. 18 on American music charts.
• Lehrer balanced his musical career with decades of teaching mathematics at Harvard, MIT and UC Santa Cruz.
• His pioneering style influenced artists like Randy Newman, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Harry Shearer and laid groundwork for future musical satire.