Leon Rosselson

When people take notice: the Artist of the Week series so far

Colin Randall writes: Unlike the newspapers for which I have worked, on the staff or as a contributor, Salut! Live does not hold editorial conferences (nor, as you'll have noticed, does it publish a print edition). The three of us... Read more →


Song of the Day: Grenfell and ‘Palaces of Gold’

Andrew Curry writes: It is the seventh anniversary today of the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in Kensington in west London in 2017. Ever since the fire, Martin Simpson has included Leon Rosselson’s song Palaces of Gold in... Read more →


Turning Silence into Song: a Covid-age tribute to the towering songwriting of Leon Rosselson

This started out as an add-on to an outstanding essay written by the gifted and versatile Leon Rosselson, possibly my favourite songwriter in the face of enormous competition. It fully deserves its own slot and here it is, promoted from... Read more →


Leon Rosselson: me, Brassens and the Last Chance, touching on Brel, Sylvestre and (always last) Ferré

June 2022 update: while browsing the Salut! Live archives, I came across this tremendous piece of writing by Leon Rosselson, a singer-songwriter-author I've always admired and was even allowed by The Daily Telegraph - despite a leftwing outlook that paper... Read more →


The Big Interview: Leon Rosselson no longer turning the world upside down

On Leon Rosselson’s most recent album, Where Are The Barricades?, we encounter a cluster of usual suspects, old, older and new: rotten bankers, corporate raiders, uncaring politicians, plundering national heroes (take a bow, Sir Francis Drake) and an Israeli policy... Read more →