Jon Brewer's father worked with Lloyd's of London as an insurance broker and his mother was a housewife who raised Jon and his siblings, David, Elizabeth, and Victoria.
12 Facts About Jon Brewer
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Jon Brewer followed his father into the insurance industry at Lloyds, but was drawn towards the music industry.
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In 1978 Jon Brewer collected two Ivor Novello Awards on behalf of his company, Belfern Music.
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Jon Brewer was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for producing and publishing Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" Best Pop Song and another for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
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Jon Brewer formed associations with CBS, Fox, EMI, and Universal, CIC and branched out into Europe, Australasia, Japan and through Universal Pictures in America, allowing Brewer to become a producer of feature films.
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In 2000, Jon Brewer was responsible for bringing the Fuji Rock Festival to the BBC.
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Jon Brewer subsequently produced a Dance Music DVD in association with Ministry of Sound, entitled The Annual in 2002.
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Jon Brewer employed a similar approach in his production of Cream: the DVD.
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King: The Life of Riley,[10] Jon Brewer was contacted by the Nat King Cole estate to create a documentary feature on the life of Nat King Cole.
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Currently in production, Jon Brewer directs the authorized Chuck Berry documentary, and his company is in the process of developing a feature film Biopic dramatized production.
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King: The Life of Riley, Jon Brewer began to develop a 3 part series for television, chronicling the development of blues music through slavery, abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, Monochrome: Black, White and Blue.
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King: The Life of Riley, Jon Brewer was contacted by the Nat King Cole estate to create a documentary feature on the life of Nat King Cole.