Steve Brown is a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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He wrote the book and lyrics (with Justin Greene) and composed the score for Spend Spend Spend

Spend Spend Spend

Spend Spend Spend is a musical with a book and lyrics by Steve Brown and Justin Greene and music by Brown.In 1961, Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson won £152,319 in the football pools. When a reporter asked her what she planned to do with her new fortune, she replied, "I'm going to spend, spend,...

, which chronicled Viv Nicholson

Viv Nicholson

Vivian Nicholson became publicly known overnight within Great Britain in 1961 when she received £152,319 in a football-pools win and announced to the press that she was going to "spend, spend, spend"...

's rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools

Football pools

A football pool, often collectively referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches set to take place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, with the potential to win huge money. Entries were traditionally...

 in the early 1960s.

Brown also wrote many of the songs for the satirical comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 show Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

in the late 1980s and the entirety of the 1990s, originally providing just lyrics and eventually taking over permanently from Philip Pope

Philip Pope

Philip R. J. Pope is a British composer and actor. He was educated at Downside School and New College, Oxford.-Performer:He appeared in the Oxford Revue in Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978 and 1979, both with Angus Deayton...

 as house composer and musical director.

In 1995 he composed the music for The Ant & Dec Show

Ant & Dec

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...

on Children's BBC

CBBC

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, and later worked on their SMTV Live

SMTV Live

SMTV Live , also written SM:TV Live and in early promotional material SMTV://live, was a British Saturday morning children's television programme, first broadcast on ITV on 29 August 1998 and last broadcast on 27 December 2003.On the surface, the programme did not seem to stray away from the format...

programme, for which he wrote the popular Wonky Donkey jingle amongst other themes.

He appeared as Glenn Ponder in the Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge

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 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

I'm Alan Partridge

I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan, of which two series of six episodes each were produced — the first in 1997 and the second in 2002...

, and the song Raped In The Face for the film Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2

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He has provided all the music and arrangements for UK comedian Harry Hill

Harry Hill

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's TV, radio and live work since 1997, and is currently working on his ITV

ITV

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 TV Burp show as musical director and jingle composer.

He is currently working on a musical adaptation he has written of It's A Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

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