"Show with David Letterman"", where she performed ""I Found Someone"" and ""I Got You Babe"". Later released on VHS, the Letterman performance would be her last with ex-husband Sonny Bono before his death. The album was also promoted on UK television. Adapted from AllMusic. Cher (1987 album) Cher is the self-titled eighteenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on November 10, 1987 by Geffen Records. The album has been certified Platinum in the U.S. by the RIAA and Gold in the U.K. by the BPI. Five years after the release of Cher's last album ""I Paralyze"" and her decision"
"a year, replaced by a new show in which she professionally reunited with ex-husband Sonny; she said, ""doing a show alone was more than I could handle."" On June 30, 1975, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band. She filed for divorce nine days later because of his heroin and liquor problems, but they reconciled within a month. They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976. Sonny and Cher's TV reunion, ""The Sonny and Cher Show"", debuted on CBS in February 1976—the first show ever"
"You"" (1976) and ""Cherished"" (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's producers' insistence, were commercially unsuccessful. In 1977, under the rubric ""Allman and Woman"", she recorded alongside Allman the duet album ""Two the Hard Way"". Their relationship ended following the release of the album, and their divorce was finalized in 1979. Beginning in 1978, she had a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons. That year, she legally changed her name from Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman to Cher, to eliminate the use of four surnames. She returned to prime time television with the"
"The Sonny Side of Chér The Sonny Side of Chér is the second studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on April, 1966 by Imperial, as her second album, Cher again collaborated with Sonny Bono and Harold Battiste. The album is by-and-large a covers album and contains two songs written by Bono. The title of the album is a pun on the name of Cher's first husband Sonny Bono. The album was Cher's second successful album of the sixties. After the success of her previous album, Cher quickly recorded another album. ""The Sonny Side of Chér"" was in the chart"
"Cher Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress. Commonly referred to by the media as the Goddess of Pop, she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. She is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances during her six-decade-long career. Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song ""I Got You Babe"" reached number one on the American and"
"and her first husband, Armenian-American John Sarkisian (whom she later divorced, remarried and divorced again), had daughter Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946). She later married actor John Southall, by whom she had her other child, actress Georganne LaPiere (born Georganne Elizabeth Southall on September 7, 1951). In 1961, Holt married Gilbert Hartmann LaPiere, a bank manager, who legally adopted Cher and Georganne, changing their last names to LaPiere. Through Cher, Holt has two grandchildren, Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. Holt sang on an Oklahoma City radio station when she was six years old, and by age"
"for a solo album. ""3614 Jackson Highway"" (1969) was recorded without the guidance of Sonny and incorporates experiments in soul music; AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it ""the finest album of her career"". Displeased with the ""3614 Jackson Highway"" album, Sonny prevented Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco. Meanwhile, Sonny dated others, and by the end of the 1960s their relationship had begun to unravel. According to ""People"" magazine, ""[Sonny] tried desperately to win her back, telling her he wanted to marry and start a family."" They officially married after she gave birth on March 4, 1969, to Chastity Bono"
"the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart-topping singles ""Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves"", ""Half-Breed"", and ""Dark Lady"". After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco album ""Take Me Home"" and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play ""Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean"" and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Mask"" (1985), and ""Moonstruck"" (1987), for which she won the"
"were legally wed after their first child, Chastity, was born). Through Bono, Cher started as a session singer, and sang backup on several of Spector's classic recordings, including ""Be My Baby"" by the Ronettes, ""You've Lost That Loving Feeling"" by The Righteous Brothers and Darlene Love's ""A Fine, Fine Boy"". In the composition by Darlene Love, the listener can clearly hear Cher and Sonny close to the mic (along with Love, who recorded her own backing vocals). With Bono continuing to write, arrange and produce the songs, the couple's first incarnation was as the duo ""Caesar and Cleo"". They received"
"but later began using the mononym Cheryl for her music releases. On 7 July 2014, Cheryl married French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini after a three-month courtship. Following their separation, Cheryl began dating singer Liam Payne in early 2016, before being granted a decree nisi from Fernandez-Versini on 20 October 2016. On 22 March 2017, she gave birth to Payne's son. Cheryl and Payne announced they had ended their relationship in July 2018. In December 2016, Cheryl appeared on the BBC One genealogy series ""Who Do You Think You Are?"", during which she researched her maternal family. Research shows that her paternal"
"Chér (1971 album) Chér (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves) is the seventh studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in September 1971 by Kapp Records. For this album, Cher left her husband Sonny Bono to produce the album, and for the first time she collaborated with Snuff Garrett and with Al Capps for the arrangements. The album was retitled after the success of the single of the same name. It received positive reviews from critics, and RIAA certified it Gold on July 2, 1972. The album was her first and most successful album of the seventies."
"In 1972, after three years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label. In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top ten TV shows in the US, ""The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour"" and ""The Sonny & Cher Show"". The couple's career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce. In the decade they spent together, Sonny and Cher sold over 40 million records worldwide. Performing under her first name, Cher went on to a highly successful career as a solo singer and actress,"
"to Andy Bell. They announced their engagement in August 2008 and the couple wed in Christchurch, Dorset, on 14 June 2009. On 13 February 2012, it was announced that the couple had separated. In 2008, Shaw was voted ""Celebrity Mother of the Year"" by the public. Following her marriage Shaw took some time off to support her new husband and to dedicate herself to family life. Shaw also said that she prefers quiet family life and goes out of her way to avoid the press and a showbiz lifestyle. Shaw gave birth to her first child, a boy named Corey"
"ABC, ""The Sonny Comedy Revue"", which carried the creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show. It was canceled after 13 weeks. During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran. Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for Cher with Warner Bros. Records, and she began work on her first album under that label in 1975. According to Bego, ""it was their intention that [this album] was going to make"
"13 years."" Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community. In 2016, after the discovery of lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city as part of a partnership with Icelandic Glacial. Cher's older child, Chaz Bono (born Chastity Bono), first came out as a lesbian at age 17, which reportedly caused"
"crowded room. By the third season of the ""Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour"", the marriage of Sonny and Cher was falling apart; the duo separated later that year. The show imploded, while still rating in the top 10. What followed was a nasty, very public divorce (finalized on June 26, 1975). Cher won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for ""The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour"" in 1974. Bono launched his own show, ""The Sonny Comedy Revue"", in the fall of 1974, retaining the ""Sonny and Cher"" troupe"
"to star a divorced couple. Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, Cher and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her reportedly extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977. In 1976, Mego Toys released a line of toys and dolls in the likeness of Sonny and Cher, which coincided with the popularity of ""The Sonny and Cher Show"". The miniature version of Cher ended up being the highest selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie. Cher's next albums, ""I'd Rather Believe in"
"Canadian album chart and reached number 14. In Europe it charted only in the Norway album chart, failing to enter the UK Albums Chart. It also peaked on the Australian albums chart at number 43. Chér (1971 album) Chér (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves) is the seventh studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in September 1971 by Kapp Records. For this album, Cher left her husband Sonny Bono to produce the album, and for the first time she collaborated with Snuff Garrett and with Al Capps for the arrangements. The album was retitled after the"
"with her husband over their son’s involvement in a controversial high school play. Block plays singer Cher in the biomusical, ""The Cher Show"". The musical played an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Oriental Theatre, beginning on June 12, 2018 and running through July 15. The production opened on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre in December 2018. Block married actor Sebastian Arcelus on October 25, 2007. Arcelus starred alongside Block in the First National Tour of ""Wicked"" as the Fiyero replacement from January to October 2006 and again on Broadway from October to December 2007. Block and Arcelus welcomed"
"grossed $35 million in the United States alone. Cher then appeared in the drama ""Mask"" (1985) directed by Peter Bogdanovich and with Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott and Laura Dern. The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. ""Rocky"" Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. The film was considered her first critical and commercial success as a leading actress and firmly established her as an actress. For her role as a mother of a severely disfigured boy, Cher won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1987, she starred in three"
"a Cannes Film Festival Award, a special CFDA Fashion Award, and a Kennedy Center Honors prize, among several other honors. She has sold 100 million records worldwide to date, becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a ""Billboard"" chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her political views, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20,"
"""Ringo, I Love You"", which Cher recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason. Cher and Sonny became close friends, eventual lovers, and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964. Although Sonny had wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright, and he began joining her onstage, singing the harmonies. Cher disguised her nervousness by looking at Sonny; she later commented that she sang to the people through him. In late 1964, they emerged as a duo called"
"actress. For her role as a drug addict biker with a teenage son who has a severe physical deformity, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. During the making of the film, however, she clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich. She attended the 58th Academy Awards in a tarantula-like costume ""to show her scorn for the 'system'"", according to authors James Parish and Michael Pitts. The incident garnered her much publicity. By 1987, Cher was receiving attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men. She had romantic relationships"
"recording peaking at #9. Notes All I Really Want to Do (album) All I Really Want to Do is the debut solo studio album by American singer-actress Cher and was released on October 16, 1965, by Imperial Records. The album was produced for Cher by her then husband and singing partner, Sonny Bono, with contributions from arranger Harold Battiste. The album is by-and-large a collection of cover versions but does contain three songs written by Bono. Upon its release, the album was well received by critics and garnered positive reviews. At the same time that the duo Sonny & Cher"
"the previous pop-standard style album, ""Bittersweet White Light"", Cher permanently abandoned her husband Sonny Bono as a producer for her albums. Snuff Garrett returned to work with Cher after the success of ""Cher"" and the minor hit ""Foxy Lady"", recording another narrative ballad album. The opening track of the album is the cover of the hit song written by Paul and Linda McCartney, ""My Love"", that was released in March 1973. The album contains two other covers: the Bee-Gees' ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"", and The Beatles' ""The Long and Winding Road"". All the songs that Cher covered"
"British charts. By the end of 1967, they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to ""Time"" magazine, rock's ""it"" couple. She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song, ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her shows ""The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour"", watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and ""Cher"". She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While working on television, Cher established herself as a solo artist with"
"They divorced in 1962. In 1964, Bono married singer and actress Cher. They had one child, Chaz (born Chastity), born March 4, 1969. In 1975 they divorced. Bono then married Susie Coelho in 1983, but divorced her within a year in 1984. He wed Mary Whitaker in 1986 and they had two children, son Chesare Elan on April 25, 1988, and daughter Chianna Maria on February 2, 1991. Bono was named a godparent of Anthony Kiedis, who would go on to become a musical artist with his band, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sonny was a close friend of Anthony's father,"
"in the 1990s. The song was Cher's first solo number one single, her previous number one in the United Kingdom had been in 1965 with her then husband Sonny Bono and their first hit: ""I Got You Babe"". Cher's ""The Shoop Shoop Song"" also topped the charts in Austria, Ireland and Norway; the single achieved a number two peak in Belgium and top ten status in France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands and Sweden. The success of the single in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe was reflected in its addition to ""Love Hurts"", her subsequent album, as released"
"""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". Cher began to take after the unconventional outfits and behavior of Hepburn's character. She was disappointed by the absence of dark-haired Hollywood actresses whom she could emulate. She had wanted to be famous since childhood but felt unattractive and untalented, later commenting, ""I couldn't think of anything that I could do ... I didn't think I'd be a singer or dancer. I just thought, well, I'll be famous. That was my goal."" In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory"
"Ever Need Is You"" (1972), ""Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs"" (1973), and ""Live in Las Vegas Vol. 2"" (1973). Cher later commented on this period: ""I could do a whole album ... in three days ... We were on the road ... and we were doing the Sonny & Cher Show"". Cher and Sonny had marital problems since late 1972, but appearances were maintained until 1974. ""The public still thinks we are married,"" Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, ""[and] that's the way it has to be."" In February"
"to officially release the song. Jose F. Promis of Allmusic retrospectively highlighted the song and called it ""wonderfully sweet ballad."" A music video was made in which Cher roams around her then empty mansion which at the time she was selling to comedian Eddie Murphy. The video also featured clips of Cher while singing the song at the MTV music awards. Rob Camiletti, Cher's boyfriend at the time, also appears in the video. Main Man ""Main Man"" is a rock song by American singer-actress Cher from her eighteenth studio album, ""Cher"". It was written and produced by Desmond Child. It"
"and hospitals in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. She met her first husband, Stephen Slesinger, while working on Broadway in 1947, and married him in 1948. Actress Clara Bow and her husband, actor Rex Bell, served respectively as the maid of honor and the best man at the Slesingers' wedding. The Slesingers lived in New York City and on their ranch in the Blanco Basin near Pagosa Springs, which provided the backdrop of Slesinger's Western films and summer programs for inner city youth. Their marriage lasted until Stephen Slesinger's death in 1953. In 1964, she married Fred"
"middle of an acrimonious breakup. The European leg of the tour covered the Netherlands, Belgium, France, England, Wales, Scotland and West Germany, over a span of 29 days. The tour would start November 6, 1977, and was to be a 29 date tour, but on December 3, 1977 Cher pulled the plug on the tour and left Allman in Europe while she headed back to the United States with her children. The pair were backed by an eight-piece band. The show, whose material was selected by both of them, combined both Allman's material, which he sang solo, and numerous duets"