Leon Rosselson

Leon Rosselson (born 22 June 1934, Harrow, Middlesex, England)[1] is an English songwriter and writer of children's books.

Rosselson was born and brought up in North London, lived in Tufnell Park and attended Parliament Hill Grammar School.

They made an EP and two LPs for Decca (Scottish Choice and A-Roving) and one LP for the American label, Monitor.

In 1964, Rosselson joined Marian Mackenzie, Ralph Trainer and Martin Carthy (later replaced by Roy Bailey) in a group called The Three City Four.

Britain's satire boom began on 24 November 1962 with the debut of a late-night Saturday television series called That Was The Week That Was, hosted by David Frost.

An earlier recording, though, the Topic EP Songs for City Squares,[1] was labelled 'for restricted listening only' by the BBC.

Rosselson also scripted two shows for performance with Roy Bailey and Frankie Armstrong: the anti-nuclear No Cause for Alarm and Love Loneliness and Laundry, about personal politics.

In 1987, three Law Lords declared that Peter Wright's book Spycatcher could not be published in Britain nor could any of it be quoted in the media.

He spent two days reading it, then encapsulated it and quoted from it in a specially written song, Ballad of a Spycatcher, which was published in the British weekly New Statesman.