Sixties
singer-songwriter Peter Eardley Sarstedt dies aged 75 on 8 January 2017 after a
long illness. He is best known for his 1969 hit song ‘Where do you go to (my
lovely)? In the same year he also released ‘Frozen Orange Juice.’
Sarstedt
(1941-2017) was born in Delhi, India, at the time of the British Raj. His
parents were managers of a large tea plantation in Kurseong in the Darjeeling district
of West Bengal. They returned to England in 1954.
Sarstedt
and his two brothers – younger brother Richard (performing as Eden Kane) and
elder brother Clive – formed a band, but Peter went on to become a solo artist,
playing his guitar and singing his own compositions.
He
continued performing in the 1980s and 90s, mainly touring Europe. He released
records in 1997, 2002, and 2012, with his latest record in 2013 called ‘Restless
Heart.’
From
2013 he lived in a retirement home in Sussex, England. He suffered from
progressive supra-nuclear palsy (PSP), diagnosed in 2015. He died peacefully on
8 January 2017 at the age of 75.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of
Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet
(2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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