Letter in the Grauniad on Tom Lehrer

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Online and in the dead tree format version.

Like Francis Beckett, I grew up listening to the satirical songs of Tom Lehrer compulsively. In 1992, while on an exchange scholarship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I nervously approached him in the dining hall at Cowell College. “Mr Lehrer,” I said, “I’ve listened to your wonderful music since I was a child.” He looked me up and down and said: “It doesn’t seem to have done you too much harm.” I did not know that in 2020 he put all his work in the public domain. Like much else in his life, it is the action of a mensch.
Dr Marc Hudson
Stone, Staffordshire