Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?— Peter Sarstedt

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“Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?” is one of those love-it-or-hate-it songs. John Peel, the ultimate arbiter of good taste in British popular music for four decades, hated it, allegedly. I’ve always rather liked it.

Yes, of course, it’s very much a song of its time in the late 1960s, and I suspect you’d never be able to make a song like it today. But for me, that’s all part of what…