Talk:Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?

Different versions?
Are there two versions of this song? The version I have seems to have two extra "stanzas" that I don't remember hearing on the radio (the verse about attending embassy parties and the one that gives her age as "in between twenty and thirty"). This article probably needs an infobox, but I don't know how to set those up... Dave-ros 09:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I've just heard a re-recording of the song (on a budget UK 60s hits compilation issued by Dynamic Entertainment) that has the extra verses - iirc the origanal song doesn't have them.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.127.97.148 (talk) 21:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I too have heard the full version of the song with the extra Stanzas about the girl being "in between twenty and thirty" and attending the "embassy parties."

I believe - but cannot be sure - that the full version is the one that was sold in the shops while the shorter version is a promotional version that was given to radio stations. This might have been for reasons of length, but also possibly because the reference to the girl's body being "firm and inviting" (in the full version) might have been considered too risque for the conservative policies of some radio stations in the nineteen sixties. Bookstolistento (talk) 22:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I own the single 45, and it doesn't have the extra verses, which I had not heard until Spotify. I also note that the online lyrics seem to be wrong, talking about shaking off their "lowly brown tags" when I believe it should be their "low Levant tags..."Dickensjunction (talk) 01:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC)dickensjunction
 * Not sure where you are getting the “Levant” bit from as the line is “…shake off their ‘lowly-born’ tags…” 86.162.12.31 (talk) 22:50, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * What? Not "lonely bald tags" then?? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:58, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Shameless plagiarism?
This page is identical to http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/Where%20Do%20You%20Go%20To%20(My%20Lovely). Who copied from whom? Axel Eble 23:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Question about the pace of the guitar rhythm
I'm an engineer, not a musician, so I can't add this to the main article, but I am hoping that someone with a music background could comment on the wonderful and peculiar repeating fast-slow pace of the guitar in this song. It feels like the sound of a train, which made it perfect for the film "The Darjeeling Limited". Philosopher and author Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) makes a similar comment in his book "Lila" about the Beach Boys song "The Sloop John B.", about how the unusual rhythm of the music feels like a sailboat beating through waves. Anyone? Energyequation (talk) 06:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Interview with Peter Sarstedt clarifies song's inspiration
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P8Xpu709oJE&feature=related —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kellymulheren (talk • contribs) 17:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

LSD
I saw a short doc where he described where he was and how he came up with this song. He said that he did it under the influence of LSD. I later was able to contact him and he denied it. So someone should please find that video of him saying this! Thanks guys! You're the best! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megaforcemedia (talk • contribs) 11:11, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Morning Mountain
Does anybody know if Morning Mountain (B-side of the original Where Do You Go To My Lovely single) is available in a digital format, ie NOT vinyl? I've never been able to find it and there is no explanation in the article as to why it was never included in any CD release or compilation. Manxwoman (talk) 15:17, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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Cello?
The article says:


 * "the arrangement is a very simple one of strummed acoustic guitar and bass guitar, with brief bursts of French-style accordion at the start and the end"

Is there really a bass guitar? At the end of the song ("I remember the back streets of Naples [...])") you can rather hear a cello. -- 2003:C5:C70B:BF00:BC1D:8E76:BA68:1CA (talk) 04:17, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Marie Claire is/was a Belgian socialite
In 2022, a Belgian Guy requested Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) on Radiochannel on Joe mentioing somewhere in the margin of the conversation with the DJ he requested the song because, although nearly forgotten in 2022, the song has a special meaning to him as it was a love song to a (now deceased) aunt of his whom was born in a modest Belgian family yet somehow became a socialite in Paris. There's no reason to doubt this 2A02:A03F:8094:C100:3D6B:B6F5:193:B088 (talk) 23:12, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Did this "Belgian guy" have a name? What connection did he have with the writer Peter Sarstedt? I suggest there is every reason to doubt this, unless you have a real source. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:13, 4 July 2022 (UTC)