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    1982. The album, featuring Batt with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, was released on Epic as a Mike Batt solo album. Batt's character "Number 17" falls...
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    Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt, she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her musical...
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    their star now conspicuously ascendant, the band brought in producer Mike Batt to work on their eighth album, All Around My Hat, and their biggest success...
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  • children's book series by Elisabeth Beresford. Songwriter and record producer Mike Batt wrote and also performed many commercially successful singles and albums...
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  • Bright Eyes (song) (category Songs written by Mike Batt)
    "Bright Eyes" is a song written by British songwriter Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was written for the soundtrack of the 1978 British...
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  • The Phantom of the Opera (song) (category Songs written by Mike Batt)
    written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt. The song was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley...
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    charts. The Wombles pop group was the idea of British singer and composer Mike Batt. The Womble motto is "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish". This environmentally...
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  • Nine Million Bicycles (category Songs written by Mike Batt)
    "Nine Million Bicycles" is a song written and produced by Mike Batt for the singer Katie Melua's second album, Piece by Piece. It was released as the...
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  • Williamson. Art Garfunkel's hit song "Bright Eyes" was written by songwriter Mike Batt. It has gained a cult following. In Lapine language mythology, the world...
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    next 27 years. She has also worked with many other artists, including Mike Batt (on his Hunting of the Snark album), Jack Bruce, Dave Greenfield & Jean-Jacques...
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  • South London, England. She first met Dramatico Entertainment chairman Mike Batt when she was 13 years old. He was auditioning female vocalists, and two...
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  • Wombling Songs (category Albums produced by Mike Batt)
    arranged and performed by Mike Batt, with vocals credited to "the younger Wombles, assisted by Mike Batt". According to Batt, the album is a simple compilation...
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  • Call Off the Search (category Albums produced by Mike Batt)
    Katie Melua, released in 2003. British songwriter, producer and arranger Mike Batt signed Melua to his Dramatico recording and management label after she...
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    (B-Side: "Sail on a Rainbow") (US AC No. 29, UK No. 1) (a song written by Mike Batt). A version of "Bright Eyes" also appeared in the movie Watership Down...
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  • I Feel Like Buddy Holly (category Songs written by Mike Batt)
    is a song recorded by Alvin Stardust in 1984, written and produced by Mike Batt. The song spent 11 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 7 in...
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    Utopia with production, arrangement and additional orchestrations by Mike Batt and a guest appearance from Eric Clapton. Lemmy worked with several musicians...
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  • The Closest Thing to Crazy (category Song recordings produced by Mike Batt)
    part of the musical Men Who March Away, and appeared first in 1995 on Mike Batt's album Arabesque. The single was originally due out in January 2004 but...
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  • The writer and performer of the theme song is Mike Batt, with his first wife Wendy on vocals. Mike Batt also wrote the theme for The Wombles, also produced...
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    Revisited (1996) – "For Absent Friends" Mike Batt – Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1998) – "Tiger in the Night" Mike Batt with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...
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    A. Robertson: the single sold well and was produced and recorded by Mike Batt. In May 1984, Lyngstad performed "I Have a Dream" with a children's choir...
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  • film). Mike Batt (who wrote "Bright Eyes") composed an all-new score performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2003, composer Mike Batt was nominated...
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  • The Planets was a classical crossover music band formed by Mike Batt in 2001. The Planets made their public debut supporting Deep Purple's 2002 UK tour...
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  • mainly sung by composer Mike Batt. Other artists who sang for soundtrack included Bonnie Tyler, who recorded a duet with Mike entitled "Into the Sunset"...
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    Yet to Come, followed in February 2021. On 2 September 2022, Tyler and Mike Batt released their duet "Into the Sunset" as a digital single. The track was...
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    Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2020. "Mike Batt feat. Julian Lennon – The Escapade (from The Hunting Of The Snark/ TV...
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    the single "Ballerina (Prima Donna)", which was written and produced by Mike Batt. It was one of Harley's most successful singles of the decade, peaking...
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  • Dramatico is a record label founded by Mike Batt in 2000. Artists on the label include Mike Batt, Robert Meadmore, Sarah Blasko, Katie Melua, Leddra Chapman...
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  • Piece by Piece (Katie Melua album) (category Albums produced by Mike Batt)
    at #1 with 120,459 copies sold in its first week. Its first single, Mike Batt's song "Nine Million Bicycles", became Melua's first top five hit in the...
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    rock bands: the Battered Ornaments, Frank Ricotti Quartet, King Mob, Mike Batt and Friends, Necessaries, Nucleus, Ricky Norton, Sharks, Trigger, and...
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  • composer Mike Batt. The musical began life in 1984 as a costumed concert with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, conducted by Mike Batt and starring...
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