SARSTEDT BROTHERS - Chinese Restaurants / Beloved Illusions (Regal Zonophone RZ 3081) UK 1973 Demo 45
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“We were born in India and we came to England in 1954, just prior to the Rock & Roll explosion” Peter explained. “Our story is, we started off as a skiffle group, then got into Rock & Roll and then split up and had our individual successes in the charts. The Sarstedt Brothers had hits from 1961 to 1976; three brothers having separate hits in different eras”.

Richard was the first to enjoy real success. After winning a talent competition he soon had a record deal under his belt and renamed Eden Kane, he went on to have a whole string of hits in the 60’s, beginning with ‘Well I ask you’, which went straight to No.1 in 1961 and followed by top five smashes such as ‘Get Lost’, ‘Forget me Not’, ‘I don’t know why’ and ‘Boys Cry’. He has toured with some of the all time greats, among them Cliff Richard, Roy Orbison, Joe Brown, Marty Wilde and The Searchers.

Second oldest brother Peter, was road manager and then bass player in Eden Kane’s band before going on to write and perform, the timeless love song ‘Where do you go to, my lovely’ (“You talk like Marlene Dietrich and you dance like Zi Zi Jean Maire ...”) which made it to No.1 in 14 different countries in 1969 and earned the coveted Ivor Novello Award, memorably as it was a shared award with David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’.

Youngest brother, Clive, also known as Robin Sarstedt, was the guitarist in Eden Kane’s band and had is own solo pop successes in the 1970’s, in Scandinavia and Britain, most notably with the 1976 sensation ‘My Resistance is Low’.