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Barclay transcribed and interpreted early jazz numbers. He cowrote the songs Quand Tu M'Embrasses with Charles Aznavour, and Le Rock de Monsieur Failair with Boris Vian.
He wrote the original soundtracks for several films, including Bob le flambeur (English title: Bob the Gambler; one translation is "Bob the high roller") (1955) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
In 1988 he published his autobiography.
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“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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