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Pete Lashley plays Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)

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www.petelashley.com www.myspace.com/petelashleymusic This one's for Joan and Rex. Pete plays a ukulele version of Peter Sarstedt's 1969 classic. It was a #1 hit in the UK charts for six weeks in 1969 and was awarded the 1969 Ivor Novello Award, together with David Bowie's "Space Oddity". In the United States, the record only reached #61 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles and #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 that May. The song is about a girl named Marie-Claire from the "back streets of Naples" who grows up to become a member of the jet set, and lives in Paris. The lyrics describe her from the perspective of a childhood friend; it is left unclear whether they have remained close. The rhetorical question of the title suggests that her glamorous lifestyle may not have brought Marie-Claire happiness or contentment. Sarstedt himself was not French, but the song may have benefited from the contemporary awareness in Britain of such singers as Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Brel. The lyrics contain a large number of contemporary and other references: Marlene Dietrich: husky-voiced German actress and singer Zizi Jeanmaire: French ballerina Balmain: French designer of elegant fashions Boulevard Saint-Michel: street in the Latin Quarter famous for bookshops Rolling Stones: popular English rock and roll band Sacha Distel: French crooner Sorbonne: University of Paris Picasso: Spanish pioneer of modern art Juan-les-Pins: fashionable beach resort on the French Riviera Saint Moritz: fashionable ski resort in the Swiss Alps Napoleon brandy: especially fine aged brandy Aga Khan: World-travelling Islamic leader and racehorse owner Topless swimsuit It is often suspected that the name Marie-Claire is inspired by the originally French Marie Claire magazine, a women's fashion weekly first published in 1937. One theory says that this song is about the Italian star Sophia Loren, who was abandoned by her father and had a poverty stricken life in Naples. Another theory has the song being inspired by singer and actress Nina van Pallandt. In reality, Peter Sarstedt wrote the song about a girl he fell madly in love with in Vienna in 1965. She died tragically in a hotel fire.[citation needed] The song was written in Copenhagen. (Confirmation of this fact can be found on the CD cover of "The Best of Peter Sarstedt", EMI, nr. 8297622, Australian CD).