A pizza destroyed Mike Batt's planned collaboration with Beatles star George Harrison

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Wombles composer Mike Batt exclusively told BANG Managing Director Rick Sky about the time he nearly recorded a song with Beatles legend George Harrison.

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00:30We had a session where I went over there, and it was such fun doing it, I had a few beers I have to say.

00:44But not so it was affecting my work or anything, I just enjoyed it.

00:51And he had a guitar, he had this lovely guitar given to him by Phil Webb at Everly.

00:57And I was sitting there at the piano, and I had this bass line, and he came up with a few ideas as well.

01:04And we had this rhythm and everything.

01:06And in the end, it was dinner time, tea time, and I think Olivia had made a pizza or something.

01:17And Julianne, my wife, was there, because she and Olivia had been going round the gardens.

01:23And they'd got a moat underneath the house.

01:26Caves.

01:27Yeah, and they'd done all that.

01:29Two girls had been having a great time.

01:31So we thought, oh, that would be much more fun to go and have a pizza with the girls downstairs in the kitchen.

01:36So we went downstairs and had a kitchen dinner.

01:39And they said, should we watch Everly Brothers special on a DVD?

01:46And we just watched this thing, had a few drinks.

01:53One of us mustn't have, because we drove home.

01:56And that's how it ended.

01:58And we never went back to the song.

02:00I had it written down on paper, but I never got to see it.

02:04Did you record it?

02:05No.

02:06You didn't record it?

02:07No, and I should have gone back and finished it, just because it would have been nice to have had a George Harrison-like song.

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