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Who Was Downtown Music’s Longtime Investor, Douglas Myers?


Downtown Music's longtime investor was Douglas Myers. Who was he? The late New Zealand businessman was heir to a successful brewing dynasty.

2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earn the duo a Grammy nomination for record of the year, he was the heir of one Australasia’s most successful brewing dynasties. In 1965, he joined the brewing company that would become Lion Nathan and eventually spend around 15 years there as MD, CEO and ultimately chairman, a post he ascended to in 1997, according to 2007 biography The Myers by Michael Bassett and Paul Goldsmith. The success of Gnarls Barkley’s led to Douglas attending the 2007 Grammys, where he saw the duo, which was composed of Cee Lo Green and Danger Mouse, pick up two awards: best urban/alternative performance for “Crazy” and best alternative music album for St.

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