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Justin Hayward hooks up with Mike Batt to cover The Dream Academy's Life In A Northern Town

Moody Blues signer and guitarist Justin Hayward and producer Mike Batt team up for the first time since Hayward's 1989 album Classic Blue

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Mike Batt: David Bowie could have been a novelty act

Mike Batt “often used to wonder” if David Bowie could have ended up a novelty artist if his early single ‘The Laughing Gnome’ had been a hit.

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Mike Batt didn’t want to be ‘world superstar’

Mike Batt is “glad” he was never a “world superstar” because he has seen how fame and wealth changes people.

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Mike Batt 'used to wish' he had Sir Elton John's voice

Mike Batt “used to wish” he had a voice like Sir Elton John but he is "quite pleased" with how he sounds now.

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Wombles composer Mike Batt: A pizza ruined my collaboration with Beatles star George Harrison

Wombles composer Mike Batt exclusively told BANG Managing Director Rick Sky about the time he nearly recorded a song with Beatles legend George Harrison.

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After reviewing hi-fi through five decades, here's why The Wombles remain my biggest musical influence

The furry litter-pickers were a supergroup of GOATs and heavily influential on my formative musical taste.

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10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations

From Slash and Dave Grohl to glamour models and 80s girl groups, Lemmy worked with ’em all

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“The director told me he wanted a song about death… Not only that, but it was a rabbit”: Mike Batt on Watership Down, his concept albums and the connection between the Wombles, Steeleye Span and (maybe) Hawkwind

Performer, composer and director on his early introduction to prog, the shelved 1973 rock opera that cost him £11,000 and keeping Dave Brock under control

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Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Ray Shulman, Yes, Einar Solberg, Pendragon, Mike Batt, Amplifier, Eivor, The Ocean, David Paton and loads more...

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Family of The Wombles creator pays tribute to Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins, who narrated the original Wombles TV series, has died aged 93.

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Londoner’s Diary: Sackler name out of the picture at Dulwich gallery

In today’s diary: Dulwich gallery re-think Sackler endorsement/ Wombles pagent incurs songwriter’s wrath/ Rylance refuses to play famous people/Cummings says Bojo would prefer to write a book about Shakespeare than be the PM

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