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Clem Cattini: remember he was a Womble – and almost a member of Led Zeppelin

Clem Cattini: remember he was a Womble – and almost a member of Led Zeppelin

Clem Cattini, who played on more than 40 No 1 hits as a session musician, was very modest about his talent, writes Mark Sweet. Plus a letter from DLL Gould Working as a propman on Blue Peter in 1998, I was privileged to witness a performance of Remember You’re a Womble by the furry pop band as they prepared for a nationwide tour.

Clem Cattini, who played on more than 40 No 1 hits as a session musician, was very modest about his talent, writes Mark Sweet. Plus a letter from DLL Gould

Working as a propman on Blue Peter in 1998, I was privileged to witness a performance of Remember You’re a Womble by the furry pop band as they prepared for a nationwide tour.

During a break in rehearsals I chatted to a heavily sweating Bungo on the drum kit. “By the way,” I asked him, “what do you do when you’re not being a Womble?”

He replied very modestly: “Oh, I play for a band called the Tornados. I don’t know if you’ve heard of us.”

To this day I’m mortified that I’d not recognised the legendary Clem Cattini (Obituary, 6 November). Mark Sweet Dorchester, Dorset

To your obituary’s comprehensive account of Clem Cattini, I would add the point that he was on Jimmy Page’s shortlist of drummers when Page was forming Led Zeppelin. Don Gould Fareham, Hampshire

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