Peter Sarstedt dead

[cloughie]

Best known for his song 'Where do you go to my lovely'. It had great lyrics! RIP Peter

[Conchis]

Always thought it was one of those songs that literally (almost) anyone with a command of basic English and three guitar chords could have written. But a good song, nevertheless, and I think it just about set him up for life.

I preferred the follow-up, Frozen Orange Juice:

https://youtu.be/k010JKRtUHc

[Serial_Apologist]

Always thought it was one of those songs that literally (almost) anyone with a command of basic English and three guitar chords could have written. But a good song, nevertheless, and I think it just about set him up for life.

I preferred the follow-up, Frozen Orange Juice:

https://youtu.be/k010JKRtUHc

From listening to "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" I get a feeling of a strong influence on Pete Atkin. Must admit, I don't remember Pete Sarstedt at all, despite having been around at the time.

[Conchis]

From listening to "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" I get a feeling of a strong influence on Pete Atkin. Must admit, I don't remember Pete Sarstedt at all, despite having been around at the time.

He only had one big hit.

Pete Atkin had an Elton John/Bernie Toupin-Like arrangement with Clive James, whereby he would set the latter's lyrics to music. In terms of lyrical sophistication, Sarstedt was no match for James but he arguably had a better and more flexible voice than Atkin. Atkins was/is an excellent guitarist/singer, though.

[johncorrigan]

Always thought it was one of those songs that literally (almost) anyone with a command of basic English and three guitar chords could have written. But a good song, nevertheless, and I think it just about set him up for life.

I preferred the follow-up, Frozen Orange Juice:

https://youtu.be/k010JKRtUHc

Me too, Conchis, though I still have both the singles. Peter had two brothers who had big hit records too...Eden Kane (Boys cry) and Robin Sarstedt who did a rather excellent version of 'My resistance is Low'.

[pastoralguy]

Very sad to hear.

I remember discussing 'Where do you go to...' many years ago.

[Tapiola]

RIP Peter. Number One in the week of my birth

[gurnemanz]

RIP. Absolute 60's classic (just - 1969, later than I would have guessed). It's on my car-driving 60's playlist, so gets an outing fairly often. Wiki tells us: Origin Croydon - so a kindred spirit. Maybe he also supported Crystal Palace.

[EdgeleyRob]

RIP Peter

'Where do you go to my lovely' is an wonderful song.
On my 60s playlist too,which I've just been listening to,just after 'Those were the Days' Mary Hopkin

[Lat-Literal]

Me too, Conchis, though I still have both the singles. Peter had two brothers who had big hit records too...Eden Kane (Boys cry) and Robin Sarstedt who did a rather excellent version of 'My resistance is Low'.

Yes indeed. Peter's single is probably one of the first ten or twenty I ever heard. There are some interesting facts here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38548507. For example, it won an Ivor Novello Award so now I have a start on that full list of songs that have done so! And during his 50-year career, Sarstedt created 14 albums, the last of which, Restless Heart, was released in 2013. He released at least two singles a year between 1967 and 1987, including Beirut, Take Off Your Clothes and I’m a Cathedral. Who had any idea? If ever anyone should cover his hit - if it hasn't been done - it is Lloyd Cole. "She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront" etc. That is where I detect a lineage.

RIP.

[kernelbogey]

'Where do you go to my lovely' is one of those songs that is defining of the sixties, instantly taking me back there.

Whenever one of those musicians from the sixties dies, I think of the Andrew Marvell poem (or at least this sentiment)

But ever at my back I hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near...