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

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