Steve Brown (composer)

Steve Brown is a British composer.

He wrote the book and lyrics (with Justin Greene) and composed the score for the West End Musical Spend Spend Spend, which chronicled Viv Nicholson's rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools in the early 1960s. The show won best Musical in the 2000 Evening Standard and Critics Circle awards.

Brown also wrote many of the songs for the satirical comedy show Spitting Image in the late 1980s and the entirety of the 1990s, originally providing just lyrics and eventually taking over permanently from Philip Pope as house composer and musical director.

In 1995 he composed the music for The Ant & Dec Show on Children's BBC, and later worked on their SMTV Live programme, for which he wrote the popular Wonky Donkey jingle amongst other themes. He continued to work extensively as a jingle writer for their ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway.

In 1996 Brown also wrote number songs for BBC Education's Hotch Potch House as well featuring a different group of living food from a basket similar to the ones seen on Sesame Street going into a cupboard and performing the songs live from inside it similar to Stars In Their Eyes.

He appeared as Glenn Ponder in the Alan Partridge TV show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and has worked extensively with Steve Coogan since, contributing to two UK tours, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon special and album, the title music to I'm Alan Partridge, and the song "Raped In The Face" for the film Hamlet 2.

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