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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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      Publisher Bonnier Books
      Imprint Bonnier Books Ltd
      Published 1/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9781785120848
      978-1785120848
      ISBN-10 1785120840
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      '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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