<P> In 2009, Sarstedt spoke to a gossip columnist for the Daily Express . He admitted he had lied about the song being about a socialite who died in a fire . He said that the song was about his girlfriend at the time, whom he later married and then divorced . According to Mark Steyn, "Anita is now a dentist in Copenhagen . Peter Sarstedt has spent 40 years singing about wanting to look inside her head . And for most of that time Anita has made a living by looking inside yours ." </P> <P> The song was a hit far exceeding Sarstedt's other work, although he is not a one - hit wonder . In 1998 he was earning £ 60,000 annually in royalties from it . </P> <P> DJ John Peel repeatedly stated that the song was one of his least favourites . On his show on BFBS radio on 1 July 1989, he said:' It's a terrible, smug, self - satisfied, hideous record . Really have hated it ever since I first heard it' . </P> <P> The song was used as a soundtrack in Wes Anderson's 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited, and in Jennifer Saunders' 2016 film Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie . </P>

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