Mike Batt - Introduction

Mike Batt (born 6 February 1949, Southampton) is a British based songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. Mike Batt is best known for creating The Wombles pop act, writing the chart-topping "Bright Eyes", and discovering Katie Melua. In 2008, Mike Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio concert tour in Germany, to promote his new CD, A Songwriter's Tale - a compilation album of his hits, some sung by himself and most of them newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has conducted many of the world's great orchestras including the London Symphony, The London Philharmonic, The Royal Philharmonic, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Victoria and The National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland.

He began his career in popular music at the age of eighteen, as a signed artist with and subsequently Head of A&R for Liberty/United Artists Records. Leaving to form his own music publishing company two years later, and simultaneously working as a recording artist. His first hits as a singer/songwriter/producer were by The Wombles, in 1974.

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