of Friday the 13th
From Margalit Fox in today’s New York Times:
“Eddie Barclay, who for three decades after World War II was arguably the most powerful music mogul in Europe and inarguably the most flamboyant, died on [Friday] May 13 in Paris. He was 84….
… Mr. Barclay was best known for three things: popularizing American jazz in France in the postwar years; keeping the traditional French chanson alive into the age of rock ‘n’ roll; and presiding over parties so lavish that they were considered just the tiniest bit excessive even by the standards of the French Riviera….
Among the guests at some of his glittering parties… Jack Nicholson….”
Related material:
— quoted by Bruce Graham from The Creators by Daniel Boorstin
“We’ll always have Paris.”
— An Invariant Feast, Log24, Sept. 6, 2004