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Composer and lyricist who was a long-time collaborator of Steve Coogan and Harry Hill, and co-created the award-winning musical Spend, Spend, Spend ....
Steve Brown, who has died aged 69, was a composer of comedy songs, notably for the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, eventually becoming its house composer; he also wrote several stage musicals, including Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera, in collaboration with his friend Harry Hill, and the Olivier-winning Spend Spend Spend, which chronicled the real-life rags-to-riches-to-rags story of Viv Nicholson, whose husband won a fortune in the football pools in the 1960s. ....
British comedy composer Steve Brown, who shot to fame on Spitting Image and later composed the 'Wonkey Donkey' song for Ant and Dec, has died from lung disease at the age of 66 ....