Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go My Lovely?

All Music Guide

"I looked up from my book and thought, I am a cathedral, in the shadow of St. Stephen." The very first line of Sarstedt's debut LP gives fair warning that you're dealing with a writer who isn't going to let a little thing like overblown cosmic pretension be a cause for embarrassment. If you want more along that line, there the song about "Many Coloured Semi Precious Plastic Easter Eggs"; if you want an over-ambitious subject, there's "The Sons of Cain Are Abel." He does show a sense of humor, though, in "My Daddy Is a Millionaire." Elsewhere, his overtly observational, oh-so-slightly self-satisfied sense of wordplay dominates. His sub-Donovan sense of melody and delivery isn't bad, and the precious baroque orchestration both dates the record and invests it with a peculiar fascination. Features the huge European hit title track; the entire album is included on EMI's CD reissue, The Best of Peter Sarstedt.

- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide