Steve Brown (composer)

Steve Brown (composer)

Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer and arranger. He composed the score and co-wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical Spend Spend Spend which starred Barbara Dickson. He has provided all the music and arrangements for British comedian Harry Hill’s TV, radio, live, recording and film work.

About Steve Brown (composer) in brief

Summary Steve Brown (composer)Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer and arranger. Brown composed the score and co-wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical Spend Spend Spend which starred Barbara Dickson and chronicled Viv Nicholson’s rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools in the early 1960s. He has provided all the music and arrangements for British comedian Harry Hill’s TV, radio, live, recording and film work since 1997. He played the fictional bandleader Glen Ponder in the Steve Coogan TV show Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, and has worked extensively with Coogan since.

In 2010 he remarried to actress Deborah Cornelius; they live in west London with their daughter Cornelius’s daughter, Cornelius Manon. In March 2018 Brown completed filming the new ITV panel game, The Imitation Game, scheduled for broadcast in autumn of that year, appearing with his own six-piece band. As a record producer Brown has worked on the triple platinum selling album Seasons of My Soul by Rumer for Atlantic and the critically acclaimed and MOBO winning debut by Britinated artist Laura Mvula, Sing To The Moon.