Peter Sarstedt
| Peter Sarstedt | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Peter Eardley Sarstedt |
| Also known as | Peter Lincoln |
| Born |
10 December 1941 Delhi, British India |
| Origin | Croydon, London, England |
| Died | 8 January 2017 (aged 75) Sussex, England |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter/ musician |
| Instruments |
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| Years active | 1967–2010 |
| Labels |
United Artists Island Records Angel Air Singer Records Warner |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | petersarstedt |
Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017), briefly billed early in his career as Peter Lincoln, was a British singer, instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter. He was the brother of musicians Eden Kane and Clive "Robin" Sarstedt.
Although his music was classified as pop, it generally encompassed ballads derived from traditional folk music rather than traditional rock and roll. He was best known for writing and performing the single "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?", which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969. Set to a "faux European waltz tune" and described as "a romantic novel in song", it won an Ivor Novello Award. The record remained Sarstedt's biggest hit, despite him releasing numerous successful albums and singles from the late 1960s onwards.
He continued to tour throughout the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, mainly in 1960s revival-type shows, until his retirement in 2010 due to ill health.
Sarstedt was born in Delhi, India, in what was then part of the British Raj, as one of six siblings, to Albert and Coral in 1941, where his parents were civil servants in the British administration. Both of his parents had trained as classical musicians. Sarstedt attended Victoria Boys' School, a boarding school in Kurseong in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, where his parents worked in a tea plantation. His family returned to the UK in 1954, settling in south London just before the rock 'n' roll boom, and the Sarstedt brothers started out performing skiffle music.
Sarstedt was a younger brother of the 1960s pop star Eden Kane, for whom he briefly played bass, and an elder brother of pop singer Clive Sarstedt.
Sarstedt was best known for his 1969 UK number-one single, released on the United Artists label, "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?", a portrait of a poor-born girl who becomes a member of the European jet set. The song topped the chart in 14 countries. It was also awarded the 1970 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. He later cited his first wife Anita as the inspiration for the song.
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