Steve Brown

Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer, and arranger. Career Although primarily known for his composing, Brown has proved himself an adept comic, both in performing and writing. He was a full cast member of the Sony Award winning BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series In One Ear from 1984 to 1986. Part of his character arc revolved around his complaining (jokingly) that not enough time or attention was given to his musical interludes, and that the rest of the cast got all the funny material. He went on to write 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/musical director, as well as providing many of the sung impressions. He has worked and appeared extensively with Rory Bremner in the 80s and 90s, completing UK tours and the BBC series, The Rory Bremner Show. Brown wrote a number of songs for BBC 2's Dead Ringers, even appearing briefly as Noel Gallagher with Jon Culshaw singing as Liam Gallagher. He has also acted as MD for impressionists Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona. 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 Wonky Donkey jingle, among other themes. He continued to work extensively as a jingle writer for their ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway.