The Closest Thing to Crazy

'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY

'Brilliantly told, the fascinating life of one of Britain's greatest songwriters' MATT LUCAS

'A brilliant, funny, emotional book' DAVID QUANTICK

Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter...