Word: cher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell her mother about her new domestic arrangement. When Georgia was expected, Cher says, "I'd rush around, collect all of Sonny's clothes and dump them through the window into Melissa's place right across the way. One day Melissa was sitting at the table with some guests when a shower of Sonny's belongings descended on everyone. She just said, 'Oh, Cher's mother must...
When Mom found out about Sonny, she made Cher move into a Hollywood girls' residence, but absence finally made his heart grow fonder. They took up housekeeping again-nonplatonically. "When I met her she was 16 and a waif," says Sonny. "On the one hand, she was a very mature kid. She had dealt with life and men on an adult level-she skipped the teen-age stage. But on the other, she was also a very naive little girl...
...their joint career started around the time of their marriage in 1964. Working for famed Record Producer Phil Specter, Sonny found odd gigs for Cher singing background at recording sessions, and they got a job together at a spot on the Strip called The Purple Onion. After work, she would often ask Sonny to drive her up to Tony Curtis' 31-room Tudor-style mansion in the Holmby Hills and park outside its great cast-iron gates. Says Sonny: "Cher would pine for that house. She'd say, 'God, Son, I want to live there...
...frightened to perform by herself, so I did the harmony just to be with her." Baby was a modest hit. In 1965 he wrote the softly rocking I Got You Babe, which turned out to be an immodest hit-some 4 million copies sold-and Sonny and Cher found themselves playing the big rock concerts. It looked as if the mansion was within reach...
...fashion changed. Hard rock, acid rock, were suddenly in, and Sonny and Cher were out. "The whole sound and style of music began to come out of the drug culture," says Sonny. "We didn't want to get into that, so it left us." In fact, the couple came out boldly against drugs, and that was good for nothing but their souls. "The Establishment-which didn't go to concerts-applauded us," says Cher. "The kids -who did go to concerts-thought we were stupid...