It is the departure of a music legend and if he was often in the shadow of stars like Michael Jackson, whom he helped to break through to the whole world, he also had his personal successes, like the tube Soul Bossa Nova. The legend died this Sunday, November 3 near Los Angeles, leaving a precious legacy to Rashida Jones and her 6 other children and if he was very popular in the United States, the Chicago native loved France very much and often went to Saint-Tropez.
It was there that he became close friends with an emblematic figure of the city, a music producer, just like him, the famous Eddie Barclay. As we learn Monaco-Morning this Tuesday, November 5, Quincy Jones was also very friendly with the latter's last and eighth wife, namely Caroline Barclaymarried from 1988 to 1998 to the man who died in 2005 at the age of 84. “Very difficult to wake up to this news. The messages from the United States do not stop. I had him on a video call again just over a month ago. He was weak, walked slowly, but to my knowledge he was not sick and was in his right mind… I stayed with him last year in Los Angeles. We looked at these thousands of photos full of memories”explains the 58-year-old woman to our colleagues to evoke her last memories with the American star.
Quincy Jones proposed to Caroline Barclay
Producer Quincy Jones, who sued Sony for $10 million after Michael Jackson's death, was a longtime friend of the Barclay couple. “I met him when I entered Eddie Barclay's life in 1986. Every summer, Quincy went to the Montreux Jazz Festival, of which he was co-producer. We spent our time there with him, surrounded by artists. Fabulous moments”recalls Caroline Barclay, before continuing: “Then he came back with us to Saint-Tropez to supposedly 'rest' (laughing), but in truth we continued in party mode because he loved going out to clubswhether it was Les Caves du Roy, where the Barclay's Club was staying at the time, and then at Jean-Roch's, whom he loved very much. Drinking nights until he stopped drinking about ten years ago!”
A long-standing friendship which allowed Caroline Barclay to rub shoulders with the elite of American stars. “Having Quincy Jones at home in Ramatuelle necessarily meant visiting all his artist friends. From Jack Nicholson to Liza Minnelli, including Elton John and the greatest jazzmen, while Eddie introduced him to Picasso, Bardot and even Sinatra in Monaco! “she confides. And if for the latter it was a platonic friendship, obviously the American producer would have liked it to go further between them: “He was a fantastic father, but also a ladies’ man. He proposed to me himself (laughing), which extremely surprised me because I loved him with an unconditional love, but not a physical one. He was more like family. A father figure”.
