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The Closest Thing to Crazy - Mike Batt

The Closest Thing to Crazy

My Life of Musical Adventures

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Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2025
Nine Eight Books (Verlag)
978-1-78512-086-2 (ISBN)
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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 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.

Mike Batt is a singer, songwriter, producer and composer who has been making hit records for more than fifty years. He was the lead singer and creator of the Wombles pop group in the early 1970s and is a multi-Ivor Novello Award winner, who has written and produced music for many artists, including Art Garfunkel, Cliff Richard, David Essex and Katie Melua, conducted many of the world's great orchestras and worked across many art forms, directing, designing, conducting and engaging in entrepreneurial activities in the entertainment industry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.9.2025
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-78512-086-7 / 1785120867
ISBN-13 978-1-78512-086-2 / 9781785120862
Zustand Neuware
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