Old heartthrob Distel embraces one boarding swanky car - spicy stuff! (8)

'old heartthrob distel embraces' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'one boarding swanky car spicy stuff' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'i' (Roman numeral) and 'i' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'car' is 'rac' which is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?