A partial answer for you Little Hawk:

Sasha Distel is (or was) a singer

Balmain refers to Pierre Balmain who was (and is) an 'Haute Coutour' designer of clothing

Zizi Jeanmarie (born Renee) was the Prima Ballerina of the Ballet de Paris / Ballet de Champs Elysees in the 1950's. Such was her appeal and fame as such that she also starred in a couple of Hollywood movies in the 1950's as well - most notably as 'Doro' in Danny Kaye's film Hans Christian Andersen. In all she went on to make a further 7 film and television movies the last being in 1991 (a telemovie).

As for Sarstedt's referring to Sophia Loren as the "My Lovely" in the song I have heard from many sources that this is indeed so though I have never bothered to find out why - I shall investigar=te and see if I can locate a reference. (one unsubstantiated version is that the song is from the perspective of a childhood playmate who occupied a very intimate (in the Platonic sense of the word) position close to Loren while growing up in Naples (BTW - anyone ever been to Naples? No wonder she left! It's dirty and horrible and UGLY driving around its streets - however, from across the Bay of Naples the city appears quite pretty - I guess the further you are from it, the more its appeal grows). It may have even BEEN a sibling - though I thought she was an only child.

Finally Little Hawk - What the HELL did you do to Peace? I've had several VERY friendly discussions with that person (and even a couple of CD's - thanks P!) and here you are getting flamed every time Peace answers you.

Mind you I think Peace has the upper hand at present - those have been some truly SAD lyrics thrown (up) at you: Just pray Peace never sends you the lyrics to "Sunny" aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggghh!