Profile
Eddie Barclay
Producer + Singer + Musician
Male
Born
Jan 26, 1921
Died
May 13, 2005
Eddie Barclay was a French music producer whose singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. He founded Barclay Records.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1921
Birth
Born Edouard Ruault the son of a café waiter and a post office worker in Paris on January 26, 1921, he spent much of his early childhood with his grandmother in Taverny (in today's Val-d'Oise).
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TWENTIES
1944
23 Years Old
With the Liberation in 1944 and consequent fashion for American music, Ruault changed his name to Eddie Barclay.
1945
24 Years Old
Under this new name he married Michèle Barraud, the first of his nine wives, in 1945.
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1947
26 Years Old
He launched what he claimed to be the first discothèque, Eddie's Club, based on the American clubs that had opened to serve US military personnel, and started his own band in 1947.
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1949
28 Years Old
In 1949, with the help of Nicole, Barclay established Blue Star, his first record label, selling 78 rpm discs.
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THIRTIES
1952
31 Years Old
In 1952 Alan Morrison, a visitor to Barclay's club, had invited him to visit the US to see the new recording technology that enabled the production of 45s and LPs.
1955
34 Years Old
In 1955 Barclay agreed to manufacture and distribute Mercury Records in Europe.
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1956
35 Years Old
Aznavour joined the Barclay stable in 1956 even though they had been friends for over a decade by that time.
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FIFTIES
1978
57 Years Old
Jacques Brel, the Belgian poet-singer who stayed with Barclay until his death in 1978, began his long association with Barclay in 1962, recording hits including Le Plat pays (The Flat Country), and Les Bigotes (The Holier-than-thous) on the Barclay label.
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1979
58 Years Old
At the beginning of the Eighties, recovering from cancer of the throat, which had been diagnosed in 1979, he sold 80% of his label to Polygram, and retired to Saint-Tropez, where he had spent 25 years building a house since Brigitte Bardot persuaded him to buy land there in the late 1950s.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1994
73 Years Old
In March 1994 Barclay underwent quadruple bypass surgery after a heart attack.
On April 29, 2005 he was admitted to the Ambroise-Paré hospital in Paris with urinary and pulmonary infections.
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