Clive Robin Sarstedt (21 January 1944 – 22 January 2022), who also recorded as Clive Sands, Wes Sands, and Robin Sarstedt, was a British pop singer and instrumentalist active from the late 1950s. He was best known for his UK hit "

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", a version of a song written and originally recorded by

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. He was the younger brother of singers

Eden Kane Richard Graham Sarstedt (born 29 March 1940Some sources, including his own website, give 1942 as his birth year; but official sources give 1940.), known by the stage name Eden Kane, is an English pop/ rock singer, musician, record producer and ...

and

Peter Sarstedt Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of singers Eden Kane, a teenage pop idol and Clive Sarstedt, with both of whom he also recorded and performed ...

Early life

Sarstedt was born in

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, now in

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, to parents who were British

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in what was then the

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in modern

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. He was the youngest brother of Peter Sarstedt and Richard Sarstedt (billed as "Eden Kane") and recorded and played guitar on Sarstedt Brothers recordings.

Siblings

Clive Sarstedt's brothers were:

(born; Richard Graham Sarstedt, 29 March 1940, in New Delhi, British India) a teen idol, who topped the UK Singles Chart in 1961, with "Well I Ask You".

(born Peter Eardley Sarstedt, 10 December 1941 Delhi, British India; died 8 January 2017 Sussex, England) best known for writing and performing the single "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?", which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969.

Career

Sarstedt appeared on many live music shows including ''

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''. He initially recorded under the names "Wes Sands" (recorded by his manager,

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) and "Clive Sands". He joined The Deejays in

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in 1966 and 1967. They had two big hits on "

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" in Sweden: "Dum Dum (Marble Breaks And Iron Bends)" and "Baby Talk". He finally had a

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in 1976, with a

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of the Hoagy Carmichael penned song, "My Resistance Is Low", using his middle name and billed as Robin Sarstedt. It reached Number 3 in the

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. Without other

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success, he remained a British

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. However, in the

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countries he hit the charts later in 1976 with his version of "

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", a song written by

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and

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and published in 1933, thus prolonging his short chart career there.

Later life and death

From the late 1990s Sarstedt lived in the

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area of Spain. Sarstedt died from a heart attack on 22 January 2022, at the age of 78. "Clive Robin Sarstedt", ''British Heart Foundation''
Retrieved 6 April 2022

Album discography

*''Clive Sarstedt'' – 1970 –

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*''Freeway Getaway'' – 1971 – RCA *''In a Dream'' – 1971 – RCA

References

External links

Information on musical activity from 1996 onwards
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarstedt, Clive 1944 births 2022 deaths English male singers English pop singers People from Ajmer