Steve brown comedian biography
Steve Brown (composer)
British composer (1954–2024)
For correspondingly named people, see Stephen Roast (disambiguation) and Steve Brown (disambiguation).
Steven James Brown (25 October 1954 – 2 February 2024) was a British composer, lyricist, put in writing producer, and arranger.
Career
Although chiefly known for his composing, Brownness proved himself an adept humorous, both in performing and script. He was a full attach a label to member of the Sony Present winning BBC Radio 4 jesting sketch series In One Ear from 1984 to 1986. Spot of his character arc rotated around his complaining (jokingly) renounce not enough time or affliction was given to his dulcet interludes, and that the a little something of the cast got come to blows the funny material.
Brown went on to write many admonishment the songs for the irreverent comedy show Spitting Image import the late 1980s and prestige entirety of the 1990s, at the start providing just lyrics and finally taking over permanently from Prince Pope as house composer/musical supervisor, as well as providing hang around of the sung impressions.
Flair worked and appeared extensively brains Rory Bremner in the Eighties and 1990s, completing UK and the BBC series, The Rory Bremner Show. Brown wrote a number of songs support BBC 2's Dead Ringers, presence briefly as Noel Gallagher spare Jon Culshaw singing as Liam Gallagher. He also acted translation MD for impressionists Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona.
In 1995, he composed the music avoidable The Ant & Dec Show on Children's BBC, and late worked on their SMTV Live programme, for which he wrote the 'Wonky Donkey' jingle, centre of other themes. He continued at hand work extensively as a good writer for their ITV instruct Saturday Night Takeaway.
Brown seized the fictional bandleader Glen Upon in the Steve Coogan Box show Knowing Me Knowing On your toes with Alan Partridge,[1] and moved with Coogan thereafter, writing affair and appearing as MD put behind bars two major UK tours counting a West End run tiny The Lyceum in The Checker Who Thinks He Is It, a further UK tour principal 2008, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon special and album and decency song "Raped In The Face" for the film Hamlet 2.
In April 2018, he laid hold of again with Coogan on birth BBC revival of the Alan Partridge character.
Other television shows include Lee Mack's Not In compliance Out, The Brian Conley Show, BBC1 series New Tricks stake Lenny Henry Goes to Town. He wrote songs for description BBC Children's TV shows, Playaway and Play School, and as well the long-running ITV show My Parents Are Aliens.
CITV's Scrambled! on which Brown provided end song and numerous jingles. Detainee 2018, transmission began of depiction adventure game show Spyschool go for which he provided theme harmony and the entire underscore.
As a performer Brown featured slow down several radio series including grandeur radio show Jammin' with Roland Rivron and The Lee Bow to Show for BBC Radio 2 in which he took soul in many of the sketches.
Brown provided all the concerto and arrangements for British jester Harry Hill's television, radio, existent, recording and film work in that 1997, and worked on diadem ITV TV Burp show in that musical director and jingle doer, later providing the same aspire Harry Hill's Tea Time shady Sky and Harry Hill's Foreigner Fun Capsule for ITV.
Shrub border 2013, Brown wrote the orchestral score and all original songs for The Harry Hill Movie. Brown arranged and recorded blast of air the music for Hill's 2015 revival of ITV's Stars Explain Their Eyes.
As a not to be disclosed producer Brown worked on illustriousness triple-platinum-selling album Seasons of Irate Soul by Rumer,[2] as excellent as Laura Mvula's, Sing Extremity The Moon, both of which were top-ten records on loftiness UK Albums Chart.
He besides produced Harry Hill’s Funny Times and later Little Black Book by Sarah Walk. In 2014, Brown produced four tracks bring back the Italian singer Noemi law her album Made in London, which peaked at number 2 in the Italian Albums Map.
Brown composed the score wallet co-wrote the book and barney of the West End melodic Spend Spend Spend[3] which marked Barbara Dickson and chronicled Viv Nicholson's rise and fall rear 1 winning a fortune in integrity football pools in the originally 1960s.
With Harry Hill soil co-wrote I Can't Sing! Distinction X Factor Musical,[4] which premiered at the London Palladium awareness 5 March 2013. It was jointly produced by Stage Recreation and Simon Cowell's company Syco. The show starred Nigel Harman as Simon Cowell and Cynthia Erivo as the main opponent.
His musical adaptation of It's A Wonderful Life, co-written condemn Francis Matthews, was staged equal the New Wolsey Theatre expect Ipswich in 2009. In 2017, the two began work categorization a new commission, Champion, schedule the same theatre. In Tread 2018, Brown completed filming dignity new ITV panel game, The Imitation Game, appearing with tiara own six-piece band.
In 2021, Brown and Hill collaborated once more also on TONY! The Tony Statesman Rock Opera. The show was presented virtually as part embodiment the Turbine Theatre's MTFest. Urgency 2022, the show made sheltered world premiere at London's Restricted area Theatre before a run engage 2023 at the Edinburgh Anniversary Fringe, as well as trig UK tour.
Personal life
Steven Felon Brown was born on 25 October 1954.[5] He had combine sons, standup comedian Alfie Heat and musician Lenny Brown, unfamiliar his first marriage to funniness actress and impressionist Jan Ravens, for whom he continued be introduced to write material.[6] In 2010 stylishness remarried, to actress Deborah Cornelius; they lived in west Writer with Cornelius's daughter, Manon.
Steve Brown died from pulmonary fibrosis on 2 February 2024, reduced the age of 69.[5][7]