The Closest Thing to Crazy

The Closest Thing to Crazy by Mike Batt


Authors
Mike Batt
ISBN
9781785120848
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Dimensions
162 x 240mm

The extraordinary life story of songwriter and composer Mike Batt, the man who has written multi-million selling hits for and with Art Garfunkel, Katie Melua, on the fiftieth anniversary since he shot to fame as part of the Wombles.

'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 beginning as he then went on to work with various artists as a songwriter, composer and producer, including Art Garfunkel, George Harrison, Cliff Richard, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Katie Melua.

Featuring cameos from some of the biggest stars in the business from Paul McCartney to Prince, The Closest Thing to Crazy takes us not only on the rocky (and classical) journey of Mike Batt's life but also on a tour around the inside of his mind.
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