[2] His parents had previously emigrated during the depression in the 1930s to New Zealand and then Sydney in Australia, where his sister Isabelle was born.
[citation needed] He was educated at Gateshead Grammar School, where he was a founding member of the Caprians Choir in 1953.
[2] The press reported that Alex suffered from arthritis and Australia's climate was expected to give him some relief.
Glasgow was also a writer and radio and television broadcaster; he presented the BBC 2 arts programme New Release in 1967, among other series.
The song entered the German pop charts in 1959 and led to a job at the BBC on his return to the UK.
His songs include several which explore the contradictions of socialism, both inside and outside the Labour Party such as "The Socialist ABC", "My Daddy Is A Left-Wing Intellectual", "Little Cloth Cap" and "As Soon As This Pub Closes".