Mike as King Sod (Society Of Distinguished Songwriters)

Cadet Company Sergeant Major Batt marches past
(centre, foreground - with Cdt.Sergeant Richard Brockman immediately behind, far right foreground) - for Queen and Country...

Billy Connolly, Mike Batt and Ozzy Osbourne,
just about to go for what turned out to be a riotous, funny dinner together
at the Dome restaurant on Sunset Boulevarde, about 1990.




Mike presents Michael Jackson with a BRIT AWARD
at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. about 1986-ish.

Hot Chocolate's ERROL BROWN patronisingly pretends to be amused
as Batt shows him a funny-looking cactus at the BELFRY restaurant, 1983 -
a meeting of the Society of Distinguished Songwriters (SODS)

Batt gives a "learn to play as well as Ringo in five minutes" lesson to Mrs Thatcher - then Prime Minister- on a visit she made to Abbey Road Studios
during the recording of THE DREAMSTONE soundtrack.

This slug has got big earoles because it has full stereo capability. The hero of TAILS FROM DON'T BE SO RIDICULOUS VALLEY is called Ergo, and this ain't him. Ergo is fairly bog-standard looking, in slug terms, but has bags of personality. He wishes he could play the piano, but has no hands, so that poses a certain challenge. He also wishes he could GO STEADY with Elsie, a fairy,- otherwise known as LITTLE ELSE (because she's little, and her name is Elsie)- but he's not the right shape to be of interest to her...or so he thinks...But when he is away from her he thinks of Little Else.

(This illustration is by the magnificent PATRICK WOODROFFE)