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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S3E4: Mike Batt

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy take a quick break from the US tour with Saucerful of Secrets to chat to a member of the SODS (society of distinguished songwriters) – it’s Mike Batt. Mike is a singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. In this episode, he discusses working with Art Garfunkel, Elkie Brookes, a variety of acclaimed orchestras and of course, The Wombles – who had 8 hit singles!! Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.

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Hi Gary. Hello guy.'re right yes so Mike Bat. Mike Bat which is a name very very similar to my dad's name which is a name very very similar to my dad's name which gets slightly confusing because my dad was Mike Pratt. That's literally a problem.

0:43.0

No one else on earth has and is actually not a problem for me.

0:45.6

I don't know why I even said it.

0:47.0

So if you start calling him father during this interview in the chat,

0:51.0

we'll know why.

0:52.0

Well, maybe that's going to be the bomb show.

0:53.0

Maybe we're going to have a Darth Vader moment, in fact he is my real father.

0:57.8

What he is, is a man of so many colours and he has so many skills, doesn't he? I mean he's done everything.

1:05.2

He's such a polymath, yeah, starting as an arranger, then writer, then, you know, producer,

1:10.0

then discoverer, then Svengali,

1:13.0

entrepreneur, children's book writer,

1:15.0

musical writer, it's, you know, it's endless.

1:18.0

Musical theatres obviously, you know,

1:20.0

and the Wombles, let's not forget. The Wombles let's not forget the one bals come on which and which and an amazing

1:27.4

cast of like really quite cool musicians have gone through all those things yeah

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