Peter Sarstedt
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Peter Eardley Sarstedt is an Anglo-Indian
singer-songwriter
.
in 1954. He is the younger brother of the 1960s pop star Eden Kane
for whom he briefly played bass
and the elder brother of pop singer Clive Sarstedt
. He is best known for his 1969, UK
number one hit
,
"Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"; a portrait of a poor-born girl who becomes a member of the European jet-set. Set to a fake Europe
an waltz
tune
, it reached the top chart
position in 14 countries and was a minor hit in the U.S.
The song was awarded the 1969 Ivor Novello Award (together with David Bowie
's "Space Oddity"). Other Sarstedt song
s include "Beirut", "Take Off Your Clothes", "I Am A Cathedral" and "Frozen Orange Juice" (UK
#10 in 1969).
In the 1980s and 1990s Sarstedt frequently toured the UK as part of the 'Solid Silver '60s' package tours. "Where Do You Go To" was later used in the 2007 Wes Anderson
films Hotel Chevalier
and The Darjeeling Limited
which sparked new interest in Sarstedt's music.
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense. British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
.
Career
Sarstedt was born in India and attended Victoria Boys' School in Kurseong, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. His family relocated to EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 1954. He is the younger brother of the 1960s pop star Eden Kane
Eden Kane
Eden Kane is an early 1960s British pop singer.-Life and career:Like Cliff Richard, Pete Best, and Engelbert Humperdinck, Eden Kane was born in India, but returned to Britain as a child...
for whom he briefly played bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and the elder brother of pop singer Clive Sarstedt
Clive Sarstedt
Clive Sarstedt is a British pop music singer.He made his recording debut as Wes Sands , and later continued as Clive Sands. He joined The Deejays in Sweden in 1966/1967...
. He is best known for his 1969, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
number one hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
,
"Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"; a portrait of a poor-born girl who becomes a member of the European jet-set. Set to a fake Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an waltz
Waltz
The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...
tune
Melody
A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity...
, it reached the top chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
position in 14 countries and was a minor hit in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
The song was awarded the 1969 Ivor Novello Award (together with David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
's "Space Oddity"). Other Sarstedt song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s include "Beirut", "Take Off Your Clothes", "I Am A Cathedral" and "Frozen Orange Juice" (UK
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
#10 in 1969).
In the 1980s and 1990s Sarstedt frequently toured the UK as part of the 'Solid Silver '60s' package tours. "Where Do You Go To" was later used in the 2007 Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials....
films Hotel Chevalier
Hotel Chevalier
Hotel Chevalier is a short film written and directed by Wes Anderson and released in 2007. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, the 13-minute film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited...
and The Darjeeling Limited
The Darjeeling Limited
The Darjeeling Limited is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. It was written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola...
which sparked new interest in Sarstedt's music.
Singles
- "I Must Go On" / "Mary Jane" (Island WIP-6028, 1/1968)
- "I Am a Cathedral" / "Blagged" (1968)
- "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" / "Morning Mountain" (UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
#1, US #70) (1969) - "Frozen Orange Juice" / "Arethusa Loser" (UK #10) (1969)
- "As Though It Were a Movie" / "Take Off Your Clothes" (1969)
- "Without Darkness" / "Step into the Candlelight" (1969)
Albums
- Peter Sarstedt (UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
#8) (1969)
- "I Am a Cathedral"
- "Sons of Cain Are Abel"
- "No More Lollipops"
- "Stay Within Myself"
- "You Are My Life"
- "Sayonara"
- "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"
- "Blagged!"
- "My Daddy Is a Millionaire"
- "Once Upon an Everyday"
- "Time Was Leading Us Home"
- "Many-Coloured, Semi-Precious Plastic Easter Eggs"
- "Time, Love, Hope, Life"
- As Though It Were a Movie (1969)
- "Overture"
- "As Though It Were a Movie"
- "Open a Tin"
- "Step Into the Candlelight"
- "Take Off Your Clothes"
- "Letter to a Friend"
- "Overture"
- "Boulevard"
- "Sunshine is Expensive"
- "Artist"
- "Friendship Song (Hey, Nena)"
- "Juan"
- "I'm a Good Boy"
- "National Anthem/Doors Close at 10:45 P.M."
- Every Word You Say Is Written Down (1971)
- Another Day Passes By (1971)
- Worlds Apart Together (1973) (credited to the Sarstedt Brothers)
- Tall Tree (1975)
- Ps... (1978)
- Update (1982)
- Colors: Asia Minor (1986) (credited to Peter and Clive Sarstedt)
- Never Say Goodbye (1987)
- England's Lane (1997)
- On Song (2006) (credited to Peter Sarstedt with Clive Sarstedt on guitar)
- "Scherazade"
- "The Silken Thread"
- "The Tango Anglais"
- "Desperado"
- "Save the Rhino"
- "Amnesty"
- "One Day"
- "Strategy Chatterji"
- "Chelsea"
- "In That Once Tremendous War"
- "Memsahib"
- "I Set You Free From Loving Me"
- "Come On, All You Foreigners"
- The Lost Album (2008)
- "A Way Leading Out"
- "I Need Her"
- "Rain"
- "Margueritte"
- "Weaver, Weave Me a Coat"
- "Jethro"
- "Another Day"
- "John Coltrane"
- "Plain Chick"
- "Muscle Twitch"
- "It's a Road"
- "Walk Down Real Streets"
- "Hollywood Sign"
- "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"
Siblings
Peter Sarstedt's brothers are:- Richard Graham Sarstedt, who also topped the UK Singles ChartUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
himself in 1961, with "Well I Ask YouWell I Ask You"Well I Ask You" is a song by Eden Kane.Recorded in 1961 as the follow-up to his debut single, "Hot Chocolate Crazy" , "Well I Ask You" was also issued as a single in the UK and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961...
", under the stage nameStage nameA stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
Eden KaneEden KaneEden Kane is an early 1960s British pop singer.-Life and career:Like Cliff Richard, Pete Best, and Engelbert Humperdinck, Eden Kane was born in India, but returned to Britain as a child...
. - Robin SarstedtClive SarstedtClive Sarstedt is a British pop music singer.He made his recording debut as Wes Sands , and later continued as Clive Sands. He joined The Deejays in Sweden in 1966/1967...
, (born Clive Robin Sarstedt, January 21, 1944, AjmerAjmerAjmer , formerly written as Ajmere, is a city in Ajmer District in Rajasthan state in India. Ajmer has a population of around 800,000 , and is located west of the Rajasthan state capital Jaipur, 200 km from Jodhpur, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from...
, Rajastan, Northern IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) (the youngest brother), who made his recordingSound recording and reproductionSound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
debut as Wes Sands (recorded by Joe MeekJoe MeekRobert George "Joe" Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter....
), and then continued as Clive Sands. He had a hit in 1976 with "My Resistance Is Low".
See also
- List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
- List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s
- List of performers on Top of the Pops
- United Artists RecordsUnited Artists RecordsUnited Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...
- Anglo-IndianAnglo-IndianAnglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense. British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent...
External links
- Official website
- [ Biography] at Allmusic websiteWebsiteA website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...