Mike Batt “often used to wonder” if David Bowie could have ended up a novelty artist. The 75-year-old conductor-and-songwriter – who was the musical brains behind children’s group The Wombles – was a ...

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(Republic) In a collaboration between some serious British music heavyweights, the voice of The Moody Blues, Justin Hayward has teamed up with singer-songwriter, producer and conductor Mike Batt to ...

Mike Batt is known for raising the popularity of one of the most well-known British novelty pop acts of the 1970s, The Wombles. Batt wrote and composed the theme song to the children’s TV series, ...