Eddie Barclay

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. His friends included Boris Vian Henri Salvador and Michel Legrand. You do not have any talent!".

He founded Barclay Records.