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...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...
Somewhere in the next couple of years their stories begin to diverge. As Cher tells it, she began to feel "I was going nowhere as a person. I wanted to grow, expand my horizons. I was bogged down." She is vague about just how her husband was holding her back. She mentions his forbidding her to play tennis because he did not feel like taking up the game, refusing to let her play music in the house or socialize with band musicians-that is all. She is also dim about what his methods of restraint were. "It's impossible...
...marriage. Early on, he recalls, they bought a house in Encino to which they both took an instant loathing. A little later, when they were down and out, he told her that if things did not start looking up they might have to retreat to that house. "Cher said, 'I'll never go back to that house.' I got the message. She was telling me, 'Make it for us; I'm not going backward.' That's the way it is with Cher. She's very demanding of the man hi her life...
...friend put it. He has just turned 40, discovered that "I can't do it as a solo," and that a great fall's pain is intense. "I lost it all," he says. "The way the act was constructed-not just the way it came about-Cher was the focal point. I never considered it a disadvantage because the act was a smash. But a straight man is a straight man is a straight man ..." A current girl friend, a 19-year-old Cal State psychology student named Ora Renet, adds: "Of course he's bewildered; someone...
...consolation, as he sees it, is that Cher is applying everything he taught her. He insists that her public persona and her sense of how to use it are largely his creations. But Cher takes justifiable pride in the fact that she has so quickly picked up the pieces of a career that many show-business Insiders last summer considered hopeless. To be sure, she had plenty of money-a $25,000-per-week allowance from Sonny, its size based on the fact that most of their $2 million joint earnings were in his control...