Richard Graham Sarstedt (born 29 March 1940),[1][note 1] known by the stage name Eden Kane, is an English pop/rock singer, musician, record producer and actor best known as a teen idol in the early 1960s, in the pre-Beatles era.
He had success in the early 1960s as a pop star appealing to a teenage audience, in the pre-Beatles era with hits including the co-written "Well I Ask You" which was a UK No.
He was born in New Delhi, British India, where his parents Albert James and Coral (nee Byrne) were civil servant and classical musicians.
He pursued his schooling from Sherwood College till March 1954, when, after his father's death, he moved with his brothers, sisters and mother to the UK.
[1] He entered a talent contest at the Classic Cinema in Kings Road, Chelsea, where he won a contract to sing an advertising jingle for Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate, which was played frequently on Radio Luxembourg.
[1] He made several television appearances on shows with then newly-successful groups the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and toured Australia with Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and the Searchers.
[citation needed] In 2017, Kane took part in a UK tour with the "Solid Gold Rock and Roll Show", which also featured Marty Wilde, Mark Wynter and Mike Berry.
[8] Kane met the American journalist Charlene Groman, sister of Stefanie Powers, in Los Angeles and they married several years later.