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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

‘One-off talent’: UK comedy composer Steve Brown dies aged 66

Steve Brown
Steve Brown, British composer, lyricist, record producer and arranger Photograph: Richard Ecclestone/Redferns

The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny Henry, has died aged 66 from lung disease, his agent announced.

Brown was a cast member of the BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series In One Ear before he went on to write many of the songs for Spitting Image in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

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