Wombles composer Mike Batt on song which showed 'there was more to me than being a Womble' Legendary producer and songwriter Mike Batt's chart-topping fame with Wimbledon's beloved litter pickers ...

The Closest Thing to Crazy. By Mike Batt (Nine Eight Books £22, 368pp) 'Actually, I've got a dog called Womble,' said Mike Batt's greatest fan, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Mike Batt is not only a musical genius but also, it seems, a business one. Instead of taking his £200 fee for the theme, he locked in the rights for all future musical Womble activities. Nice call.

A pizza destroyed Mike Batt's planned collaboration with Beatles star George Harrison. The 75-year-old conductor-and-songwriter was the musical brains behind children's group The Wombles - which ...

Batt confided to presenters Jon Kay and Sally Nugent, saying, "I'd been in the music business for five years, since I was 18, so I was 23. They said, 'We'd like you to write a tune for The Wombles'.

Mike Batt “often used to wonder” if David Bowie could have ended up a novelty artist. ... The ‘Remember You’re A Womble’ hitmaker has just released his autobiography, ...

Mike Batt, the man behind iconic tracks like The Wombling Song and Remember You’re A Womble, has confirmed how much he got paid for penning the famous song to accompany the children’s TV show.

Mike Batt, who also wrote the famous song for Watership Down, was paid just £200 to pen the iconic tune that accompanied the Wombles on television screens ...

Queen Elizabeth II was a great fan of Mike Batt, who not only brought the Wombles to life through song, but also composed one of Her Majesty's favourite tunes, The Closest Thing to Crazy ...

A pizza destroyed Mike Batt's planned collaboration with Beatles star George Harrison.The 75-year-old conductor-and-songwriter was the musical brains behind children's group The Wombles - which ...