Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) - Re-Recorded

This song is about a young girl born in poverty in Naples, Italy, who grows up to become a member of the jet-set. Who is this woman Sarstedt was singing about? It's clearly a composite, as no one person fits the description, but the singer had taken up with a Danish dental student named Anita Atke, whom he later married. She may not have worn bespoke outfits by Balmain, but she probably owned some Rolling Stones records. Sarstedt said the song was about "a generic European girl," but cited Atke as an influence.

Peter Sarstedt's elder brother Richard had already had a #1 hit in UK, "Well I Ask You" in 1961, when he sang under the name Eden Kane. When Peter Sarstedt reached #1 seven years later, it made them the first brothers to have solo #1s in Britain. In 1976 a third Sarstedt brother, Robin, reached #3 in the UK with his version of Hoagy Carmichael's "My Resistance Is Low," enabling the Sarstedt clan to become the only three brothers in British chart history to rack up separate solo hits.

Among the personalities this song references is Zizi Jeanmarie, who was a French ballerina who in the 1950s was reckoned to be the best dancer of her generation. It also refers to Aga Khan, a wealthy Islamic leader who married the English fashion model Sarah Croker-Poole in 1969. The names of Marlene Dietrich, Picasso, Sachel Distel and The Rolling Stones are also mentioned.