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'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY

'Brilliantly told, the fascinating life of one of Britain's greatest songwriters' MATT LUCAS

'A brilliant, funny, emotional book' DAVID QUANTICK

Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures.

For better or for worse, he is a man who has always lived life on his own terms. Idiosyncratic but mainstream, complicated but compassionate, steadfastly maverick in spirit but avowedly commercial in outlook. He is a man of great contradictions, but even greater talent.

After starting out in the music business as a teenager, Batt shot to fame in the early 1970s for his part in the creation of the Wombles pop group. But this success proved to be just

The Closest Thing to Crazy

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'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY'Brilliantly told, the fascinating life of one of Britain's greatest songwriters' MATT LUCAS'A brilliant, funny, emotional book'... Read more

    Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 9/26/2024
    ISBN13: 9781785120848, 978-1785120848
    ISBN10: 1785120840

    Non Fiction , Entertainment

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    'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY

    'Brilliantly told, the fascinating life of one of Britain's greatest songwriters' MATT LUCAS

    'A brilliant, funny, emotional book' DAVID QUANTICK

    Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures.

    For better or for worse, he is a man who has always lived life on his own terms. Idiosyncratic but mainstream, complicated but compassionate, steadfastly maverick in spirit but avowedly commercial in outlook. He is a man of great contradictions, but even greater talent.

    After starting out in the music business as a teenager, Batt shot to fame in the early 1970s for his part in the creation of the Wombles pop group. But this success proved to be just

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