The Closest Thing To Craz y (Lead track on Katie Melua “Call Off The Search” No 1 album) It’s partly to do with self-expression and partly because if I control the music and the lyrics I can make them fit together more interestingly, and, incidentally, write more quickly”Īll songs Music/lyrics by Mike Batt (except “A Winter’s Tale Music by Mike Batt, Mike Batt/Tim Rice)īright Eyes (Art Garfunkel) – No 1 in 6 countries (for the Motion Pictutre “Watership Down”) I have collaborated (with Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber and even ABBA’s Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, albeit the latter remotely, adding lyrics for a musical) but I do not enjoy the process as much as I enjoy writing the complete song myself. The lyric is pivotal and I like to think that f I didn’t compose, people would hire me solely as a lyricist, because I don’t think my lyrical skills are inferior to my musical ones. To me you don’t have a song until you know what it’s about and how it’s being expressed in words.
I began writing when I was about 15 in 1965 but didn’t have a hit as a songwriter writer until the Wombles in 1973, when eight hits in a row happened in the space of a year and a half! So those songs have to go into my list and I’m proud of them.Īlthough people tend to think of me as a composer first and foremost (because of my arranging/conducting, and orchestral leanings) I think of the lyric as being if anything even more important than the melody. It’s the beginning of the process that then sets off arranging, producing, conducting, singing or working with another artist.
When I perform, it’s almost always my own songs recording or live. “Songwriting has always been the bedrock of what I do.
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