Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely (Top Of The Pops 1969) 

Very few songs tell such a story, such as this one does. I heard this back in the 60s and, even as I am now approaching 77, it remains one of my very favourite songs. God bless you, Peter, rest in eternal peace, and thank you for such a timeless song.

Every time this song came on the radio I would stop the car just to listen to it, I still listen to it today.

Peter was my friend and neighbour, what a lovely man, singer ,songwriter. RIP Peter Sarstedt.

This song has stood the test of time it's still wonderful. Good music never gets old. ❤

We are the first generation that can see and listen to performances from over half a century ago. That's amazing when you think about it...

He passed away but his music still floats among us !

I remember sitting in the pub in the 80's talking to a "hard as nails" tank gunner from the British army as a young lad just old enough to drink. He cried when this came on and told me it was his favourite ever song. This is what real music does to you.

My dad use to play this in the car when i was a kid. He had great taste (well mostly) in music. He has been gone 10 years now, miss him every day. But greats like this always bring back the great memories. Rip dad

one of my favourite records of all time - I'm 72 years old now but still thank Peter for this wonderful song

How does it get better than this? Timeless classic ❤

Another reason why 1969 is one of the best years for contemporary music. This is haunting and so beautiful it brings a tear to my eyes. RIP Peter you are a brilliant musician and singer.

An unique masterpiece 50 years ahead of its time R.I.P.

I remember this beautiful song being released. I have listened to it ever since and still love it.

What generation . I'm nearly 70years old these songs are my songs Gav Walsh Australia xxx

Still listening in 2024

2023... Still as beautiful as it was in 1969... Thank you to the producer who found and restored this material... 🇿🇦

You can’t beat yesterday’s songs they sang with beautiful words ,live for ever these songs, ❤

What a gorgeous pop masterpiece. This is still sounding great in 2022! RIP

This song is what music is all about. My god what a voice. This song stirs up so many emotions. U don't get music like this anymore. Amazing!!! 😍

Love this ❤😊60's 70's 80's were the best music 🎶 🎵

I was so very fortunate to see Mr Sarstedt perform this on stage several years ago. It sent shivers down my spine

We were soooo lucky to be alive in the 60s/70s there was soooo much musical talent (and genius inventions) that are ALL recycled now and served up as original

A truly beautiful song. Anyone who appreciates REAL music can relate to this timeless classic

This song reminds me of my sister when she was growing up, sadly she passed away 18months ago from a brain tumour it was a horrible and slow ending, for someone who had so much vitality, eloquence and charm. Miss you sis.

I Was 12 years old when this song came out and I had learnt all the words by the time I was 12 and a half. It's just magic to listen to it today. I'm now 64.

No matter how bad things may be, whenever I hear the first HAUNTING notes of the accordian I am again 8 years old and listening to the radio in the back of the car driving home from Edithvale to Ringwood East in Melbournes Outer Eastern Suburbs after a great day at the beach in a far far better time.

My granny came to stay for Christmas and she was wanting my dad to put this on the record player, she was so proud as she lived in Juan-Les-Pins and it was mentioned in this song. Ahhhh memories.😊

When I was a child, this song awoke me. I had no idea of children being hungry. Just those few words have stayed all my life. Do what you can for our little one's, they need us now.

Always loved this song since the the first time I heard it. Am now 72 and still love it.

Tony Blackburn played this on his morning Radio 1 morning show every morning at the same time . It was his Tip For The Top when it was just released. I remember waiting for it coming on before I left to walk to school. Literally a lifetime ago.

I love this song even thought it's sad . Back then songs and music 🎶had such meaning and touched your sole . The musicians put their heart and soles into thier art . God bless them all as I feel very fortunate to live in this era where we has such talent .

Stumbled upon this by accident. WHAT A GREAT SONG! Congratulations Peter Sarstedt, you just gained a new fan, 53 years on.

The 60s what a great time to be growing up I am glad that I was there

This song, and Windmills of your Mind, and Those were the Days... absolute classics that I was privileged to be around in the late sixties to hear (as a child) , and these songs still resonate with me now.

I recently heard Peter ended his days in a rest home. Legend, sleep well pal..

I learned how to play guitar because of this song and still play and sing this often never get tired of it ... timeless song

Sends shivers down your spine. Absolutely wonderful. They don't write them like that any more ...

Unforgettable moments... wonderful times, the sixties and seventies... quality music... times when everything was much more relaxed. Big contrast to today's society...! Peter Sarstedt... pure youth sentiment...! R.I.P. my friend....!

Don't hear songs with lyrics like this no more just pure class better than the crap that's going around today

Peter's elder brother Richard had already had a no1 hit in the UK, "Well I Ask You" in 1961, when he sang under the name Eden Kane. When Peter reached no1 it made them the first brothers to have solo no1s in Britain. In 1976 their other 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.

this divine classic will never age , its words are pure magic that weave a very romantic song , never to be forgotten the 60s era was something else ,,we were there lol xx

A truely emotional song , which the artist made thinking of his first wife ... and mine ..A number one in the UK !

I grew up on this song, so lovely to hear it again. Just gorgeous.

"So look into my face, Marie-Clare .." , still gives me a shiver every time I hear it.

Still beautiful in 2021.

Just listened to to this yet again with headphones on , eyes shut and a glass of beer in my hands . Absolutely brilliant singer , song and memories of great times .

Fantastic. One of the greatest pop songs ever written. Astoundingly clever and beautifully sung. Still fresh in 2021.

A lot of us started out poor, but enriched in life by music like this, I am humbled by this song

Used to sing along and dance to this as a little girl - always loved the mystery of the lyrics. Now older and none the wiser, but smiling through the tears of childhood reminiscence ... Such a very special song for me - wonderful footage.

This brings back memories and stirs feelings from the 60s. meeting my lover and holidaying in the south of France we had 47 years together ,death parted us😢

What a treasure...this song has haunted my memories ever since I heard it...1969...where did the time go?

Grew up listening to this song!What amazing music we had! I'm 48 , probably an old soul.Lovit!

First time listening to this and it hit something within me. For some reason I started crying, what a beautiful but innocently sad song

wow I loved it a sixties classic what a brilliant era

I listen to this lovely song. It makes sense. Makes me laugh. Makes me cry. Makes me jolly. Madness. Great.

My dad used to sing that song to me and I loved it rest in peace dad and every time I hear it I think of you and go in side my head to the wonderful memories I have growing up and having a brilliant dad like you 💓

I remember watching this as a 12 year old. It spoke of another world than suburban Melbourne. It spoke of grown up stuff but we could understand where she came from.

I was 20 when this song was released and it has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. He and his brother Eden Kane came from from Croydon, my place of birth and Peter died in Sussex, my current home county, so the emotional connections are with more than the music. His last few years were very sad, especially for somebody who gave us so much pleasure. Thank you Peter.

My Dad was a soldier in Germany in the 70's and it brings such good memories for me. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Had the privilege of meeting him at a pub concert a few years ago. He gave me CD and signed autograph. Pity he's gone now. This was his best song by far.

My mum sang this to me as a child, I miss her dearly 😢❤

Unforgettable if you were around in 1969 and a 21 year old ( or any age) . Wonderful

I was a young kid when this came out. I have listened to it many times..and just realised that Peter Sarstedt is only just singing the lyrics; almost talking them in fact, and that this was a deliberate approach to the song. Because he is telling us a story, almost a modern folk story. Its a great creation!

Such a beautiful song with gorgeous music still sounding beautiful in 2023, the song brings about images in the mind of the listener-fantastic.

Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 - 8 January 2017), in New Delhi, he failed as a waiter ina Bobay restaurant. Briefly billed early in his career as Peter Lincoln, was a British singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of musicians Eden Kane and Clive Sarstedt.

It is one of those 60's numbers which I must have heard on radio during my childhood but watching video for 1st time in 2021. God bless the uploader 💐👍

That's when music had love and ppl shared without hate and cared for each other

Many years have passed yet this performance remaims timeless.

I was an 18 year old seaman based in Portland, in southern England when this was in the charts. we drank Devenish bitter and played darts to this.....

I was 8 when this came out. I remember being transfixed by the simple beauty of the melody watching every time it came on tv. All these years later I’m still transfixed by it but now also appreciating the love story in the lyrics. I can never tire of this song

Songs like this will go on forever, absolutely brilliant.

Back in 1989 I was working at a radio station in Ottawa . One of the announcers Frank Sasson introduced my wife and myself to Peter Sarstedt. It was a great time in our lives. His music was listened to a lot. Frank had an album of his music and he gave it to us. I still have it. Ann , my wife passed away 3 years ago but I still listen to his music. I have no idea where Frank is now but wish I could thank him for the memories.

Being a 70's child, this was staple on AM radio. I've always loved this song, and for the last 30 years it has been on my set list.

One of the greatest songs of the 60's. It really was not widely heard Stateside. I first heard it in South Africa in 1979.

greatest years gone forever. At least i can go back when listening to beautiful music like this.

Unforgettable classic!

...they just don't write songs like this anymore... wonderful song!

I tell you something you just cant beat the classics now thats what i call music brilliant 👌

Yes ,many artists have done this song, but he gets my heart struck vote. 💔

one of those eternal one hit wonders that people will never stop listening to.

Incredible song ;"I remember the back streets of Naples, two children begging in rags."

Omg I'm almost 30 and I still love this song and still sounds amazing 💓 They don't make music like this anymore 😢

I was only 2 when this came out but I so remember my grandad singing this in the kitchen yrs later and I loved it and still do and Yh I cry thinking of things he was just brill and learnt me to drive as well. This song is just great ❤️

Simply sublime, words and music. Sends shivers down my spine. Bringing in the strings at end is just one aspect of its genius, whoever the arranger was.

i have always loved this very special song since it was first charting so long ago, the images of far away and romantic places and lifestyles that were so so far away from my own life back then, i still get goosebumps when i hear it, i remember peter the first time he played top of the pops when his clothes were still poor and afterwards when his clothes became more expensive after his success, i remember we found out later that he had a famous brother or brothers but i can't remember names now... so long ago, so long ago

I wasn't fortunate enough to be alive in the 60s but listening to this classic takes me there. RIP peter

Reminds me of my parent's. This song just carries u away into another time. Love it

Listening to this Angelic record is just heavenly , I realise that this man was a gentleman who sang what was on his heart, I love this man's simplicity and elegance, humbleness, I wish men could still write and sing songs as heavenly as this one

Lyrically, Effortlessly.... beautiful track that never fails to touch me when its played

Love this song I was 17 when it came out brings back memories

An acoustic guitar and the golden vocals of a genius, easy as. What an amazing combination.

My army mates and I used to sing this when we were full as boots! Have never forgotten it.beautiful story, well sung!

I’am 58 and this remarkable song still brings back good old memories! Many thanks for that!

An effortless masterpiece. That deserves to live on and on.

This is my song as child it stuck in my head and I was born 74 but such beautiful lyrics ❤❤❤

I'm in my mid 70s and still love this music genre. Ahhh memories...🦘

I was in hospital when this came out and remember it being on the radio i had with me, brilliant lyrics, don't make records like this now days

This has long been one of my all time favourite songs. I heard when I was at boarding school. There I learnt to love the music of the 60's. This is right up there the way he spins a tale of a young girl becoming a woman, simply divine.

LYRICS You talk like Marlene Dietrich And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire Your clothes are all made by Balmain And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair Yes, there are You live in a fancy apartment Off the Boulevard St. Michel Where you keep your Rolling Stones records And a friend of Sacha Distel Yes, you do But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed? Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head Yes, I do I've seen all your qualifications You got from the Sorbonne And the painting you stole from Picasso Your loveliness goes on and on Yes, it does When you go on your summer vacation You go to Juan-les-Pins With your carefully designed topless swimsuit You get an even suntan On your back and on your legs And when the snow falls you're found in St. Moritz With the others of the jet-set And you sip your Napoleon Brandy But you never get your lips wet No, you don't But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed? Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you? I want to look inside your head Yes, I do Your name, it is heard in high places You know the Aga Khan He sent you a race horse for Christmas And you keep it just for fun For a laugh Ha-ha-ha-ha Oh, they say that when you get married It'll be to a millionaire But they don't realise where you came from And I wonder if they really care Or give a damn Where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed? Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head Yes, I do I remember the back streets of Naples Two children begging in the rags Both touched with a burning ambition To shake off their lowly-born tags So they tried So look into my face, Marie-Claire And remember just who you are Then go and forget me forever But I know you still bear the scar Deep inside Yes, you do I know where you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed I know the thoughts that surround you 'Cause I can look inside your head

They don’t come much better than this. Beautiful song.