Editing Tom Lehrer (section)

===Touring===
[[File:Tom_Lehrer_has_become_an_honorary_student_in_the_Studenterforeningen_(Copenhagen_Student_Union).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Lehrer as an honorary member of the Copenhagen Student Union, 1967]]
Lehrer had a breakthrough in the United Kingdom on December 4, 1957, when the [[University of London]] awarded a [[doctor of music]] degree ''[[honoris causa]]'' to [[Princess Margaret]], and the public orator, Professor J. R. Sutherland, said it was "in the full knowledge that the Princess is a connoisseur of music and a performer of skill and distinction, her taste being catholic, ranging from Mozart to the [[Calypso music|calypso]] and from opera to the songs of Miss [[Beatrice Lillie]] and Tom Lehrer."<ref>{{cite book |title=East Africa and Rhodesia |year=1957 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h64qAAAAMAAJ |page=493 |access-date=September 17, 2017 |archive-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426165710/https://books.google.com/books?id=h64qAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51200645/|title=The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri · Page 4|date=December 5, 1957|work=The Kansas City Times|agency=[[Associated Press]]|location=Kansas City, Missouri|page=4|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125752/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51200645/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7KVCLZuC58| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211118/V7KVCLZuC58| archive-date=November 18, 2021 | url-status=live|title=British Pathé, quoted only "from Mozart to calypso"| website=[[YouTube]]| date=April 13, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This prompted significant interest in Lehrer's works and helped to secure distribution in Britain for his five-year-old debut album. It was there that his music achieved real sales popularity, as a result of the proliferation of university newspapers referring to the material, and inadvertently due to the [[BBC]], which in 1958 banned from broadcast 10 of the 12 songs on the album.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 14, 2007 |title=Unfit for Auntie's airwaves: The artists censored by the BBC |language=en |work=The Independent |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/unfit-for-aunties-airwaves-the-artists-censored-by-the-bbc-765106.html |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-date=February 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202175948/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/unfit-for-aunties-airwaves-the-artists-censored-by-the-bbc-765106.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By the end of the 1950s, Lehrer had sold 370,000 records.<ref name=bensmith/>