I am in shock that not only is Sonny & Cher NOT in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but neither is Cher as a solo act. I mean CHER????!!!!!

For 50 years Cher has done her musical thing and Cher needs induction WITH Sonny and as a solo!

You Go GIRL!!

Posted by Balletgirlmom@hotmail.com on Sunday, 06/16/2013 @ 18:15pm

Why isn't Sonny & Cher in the Rock and Roll of Fame? What is taking it so long? Why do they keep being passed over for lesser known acts and singers? They've contributed a lot to music during the 60's and early 70's. Cher still continues to break records with having the most decades of #1's

Posted by Rick on Monday, 06/17/2013 @ 04:03am

****SONNY & CHER****

Sonny & Cher deserve to be inducted as a duo, and Cher deserves to go in again as a solo artist. What's the problem, RRHOF ?

Posted by Bill G. on Tuesday, 07/9/2013 @ 15:36pm

Amaaaaazing not having Sonny & Cher OR CHER solo in the hall. This is rather sad.

Posted by New Yorker 1982 on Wednesday, 12/18/2013 @ 21:14pm

Listen to her voice on early versions of "The Beat Goes On" really, really soulful.

Posted by D. Stroy on Saturday, 01/4/2014 @ 09:32am

Amaaaaazing CHER nor Sonny & Cher are in the R&RHOF. Quite sad and mad!!!!

Posted by Jamie1982 on Friday, 04/11/2014 @ 21:27pm

Without Cher there would not be Madonna,Lady Gaga,She should have been in a long time ago

Posted by Gail on Sunday, 04/13/2014 @ 19:51pm

Not inducting Sonny & Cher is bullcrap.

Posted by Larry Alperwitcz on Thursday, 10/9/2014 @ 19:33pm

Sonny & Cher began as Caesar & Cleo waaaaaaaaay back in 1963/1964 and hit #1 in 1965. Sonny & Cher were Folk-ROCK especially in the 60's. Somehow many artists much more obscure are in.

Posted by Chrissy77 on Monday, 04/6/2015 @ 15:49pm

Ina word...no.

Sure, they were entertaining and had a few hits I like, such as "All I Ever Need is You", but they were not that original and Sonny was a terrible singer. A better case could be made for Cher's solo career for its longevity alone, though that also would be a long shot. Her voice is unique and expressive, but some of her '70s song choices, like "Half-Breed" and the execrable "Dark Lady" can do nothing but work against her.

Posted by M. Scott on Sunday, 05/3/2015 @ 11:17am

Scott
time fades memory's They were as big as big can get.. They inspired many One of The first boy girl /husband wife couple in the rock 60's & TV shows.. fun to watch and good music, They are rock entertainers... I love there hit tune "The beat goes on" it says it all...........

Posted by Happy on Sunday, 05/3/2015 @ 15:35pm

What's wrong with Dark Lady and Half-Breed?

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/3/2015 @ 16:05pm

My fave Sonny & Cher song was Mamma Was A Rock & Roll Singer & Papa Used to Write All Her Songs.

Posted by Dee on Monday, 10/5/2015 @ 19:09pm

Ok here we are in another year and as usual no nom for Sonny & Cher. Sad but true.

Posted by Jaclyn L on Saturday, 10/24/2015 @ 12:20pm

Baby Don't Go is my S&C song. Whenever I hear it I smile and it takes me back to the 1960's. I guess S&C will not get in since there is nobody to fight for them. Cher does not care nor does her management so I guess it ain't gonna happen.

Posted by JJhass on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 @ 20:16pm

The HOF is so bogus it ain't funny.

Posted by Prentiss77 on Friday, 12/18/2015 @ 04:59am

I think it is a travesty that Cher has not been admitted. She has pleased millions of fans for her great live shows and sold millions of albums and singles since the 60s. She's a great showman. She has had a tremendous impact on Pop culture. She is aging and has had health problems in recent years, and I think it would be just horrible if she isn't inducted during her lifetime.

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, 02/24/2016 @ 14:00pm

I agree with Mike. This is sort of absurd. Here we have a duo that still is the biggest husband/wife duo of the 60's and 70's and still get zero recognition. I agree Cher needs to get in w/Sonny before she is dead.

Posted by Orca1988 on Sunday, 03/6/2016 @ 21:23pm

Yup they do that allllll the time. after someone is dead they give them stuff like this. A Shame cuz our Cher and in this case Sonny & Cher deserved it eons ago and Sonny was alive back when they were first eligible.

Posted by Aliceson on Wednesday, 04/13/2016 @ 17:04pm

I love their song Little Man in that cute commercial on all the time now. Sonny & Cher were so relevant in the mid 1960's and tis a shame they are still being blackballed.

Posted by Danniele on Saturday, 05/14/2016 @ 08:25am

Love their Two of Us album from 1965. I got it about 10 years ago and began researching them on You Tube. Love their music and style.

Posted by inezguaterra on Thursday, 07/14/2016 @ 21:39pm

The Two Of Us was and is still a masterpiece.

Posted by Chrissy Duxbury on Sunday, 08/21/2016 @ 02:41am

I'd love to get outtakes and demos and live stuff of Caesar & Cleo from 1963 and 1964. Too bad Cher never really cares bout her ole stuff but I do.

Posted by la1985guitar on Saturday, 09/3/2016 @ 14:36pm

Saw their Christmas Shows on GetTV from the early 1970's and loved them! Forgot how much fun they were.

Posted by kikisan on Saturday, 12/24/2016 @ 19:30pm

Saw their Christmas Shows on GetTV from the early 1970's and loved them! Forgot how much fun they were.

Posted by kikisan on Saturday, 12/24/2016 @ 19:30pm

I see they are in the Grammy Hall of Fame

Posted by Luis Aguilar on Tuesday, 01/3/2017 @ 06:51am

OK the Grammy Hall of Fame is a start but they need the R&RHOF too!

Posted by kenelly83 on Sunday, 03/5/2017 @ 05:55am

OK the Grammy Hall of Fame is a start but they need the R&RHOF too!

Posted by kenelly83 on Sunday, 03/5/2017 @ 05:55am

Cher's Prayers For This World song from Cries From Syria is hauntingly beautiful. A very simple song but emotional song. It's the theme for the HBO documentary film.

Posted by ChrissyUnderwood on Thursday, 03/16/2017 @ 15:38pm

The vid on You Tube is so sad. Too bad Cher never promotes her stuff. She kinda does it and forgets it. This song is perfect for AC radio and could do decent airplay on adult radio but she does not try or her label does not try. This song is very powerful and could do a lot in the AC area. By the way no other female artist from the 60s is still on tour either.

Posted by London1983 on Saturday, 04/8/2017 @ 06:50am

Ya, Cher never promotes her stuff. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the 60s and 70s Sonny did a great job pushing her stuff and of course their duo stuff but solo Cher usually means great work by her but no real push for it behind the scenes.

Posted by tandi on Friday, 05/19/2017 @ 17:43pm

Yeh Cher doesn't promote much and has not been on tour in Europe in eons. We miss her. Sonny & Cher and of course SOLO Cher deserve to be in this silly HOF. I look at the list of who is in and for Cher to not be in is bloody sad.

Posted by EveUK on Sunday, 07/16/2017 @ 00:49am

Cher is making a ton of money at Monte Carlo in Vegas and in DC at the MGM at National Harbor. The show is Classic Cher and she performs I Got You Babe with Sonny on video. Very emotional. This gal has longevity and still performs in high heels. Great show and great gal.

Posted by Sambirna77 on Monday, 08/7/2017 @ 20:33pm

Their stuff as Caesar & Cleo waaaaaaaaay back in 1963/1964 is interesting.

Posted by paulo s on Friday, 09/1/2017 @ 16:32pm

Cher & Future are so cute in their TV spot doing Everyday People. I You Tubed it and found the Sonny & Cher version from the early 1970's on their variety show. Fun stuff!

Posted by Janie Griffin on Monday, 10/9/2017 @ 11:44am

Ya love Cher & Future in their Gap spot. Love Cher's anti-Trump Tweets. Cher & Trump share no love and have been enemies for decades. Get Cher in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted by Luis Aguilar on Sunday, 11/19/2017 @ 14:21pm

Funny how some artists with careers that died off decades ago are IN and Cher and Sonny & Cher are out. Pathetic.

Posted by JJRite on Saturday, 12/16/2017 @ 09:13am

here is another that need to be praised ..

Posted by Drrock on Saturday, 12/16/2017 @ 15:25pm

Caught the Sonny & Cher Christmas episode on the net + I guess it was from 1971 or so. Fun episode of their show. Wish I had been around for their heyday. Actually it seems variety shows died around the time Sonny & Cher stopped doing them or shortly after. After the 70's there were so few and most flopped. Either way this duo should have been inducted back in the 90's when they were eligible.

Posted by kalvin moore on Friday, 12/22/2017 @ 08:06am

Was out last night and saw clips in a video bar of Sonny & Cher from one of those shows from 1964-1965 where the kids are all screaming. Cher was still a teen waaaaaaaaaaay back then and the clips were so nostalgic. You could see how Sonny & Cher were teen idols. Funny to think how Cher started her career as a teen.

Posted by JasmineT on Saturday, 01/20/2018 @ 08:54am

Cher headlined the Sydney Mardi Gras (Gay)and was a sensation. She goes on and on and on. Fun Gal!

Posted by Dagwood2 on Tuesday, 03/6/2018 @ 04:34am

Was out in a club and saw a great clip of the Rolling Stones doing I Got You Babe. Cute clip from 1965. Mick Jagger looks like a baby. So cute. It's the Sonny & Cher version and they are lipping to it. fun clip.

Posted by EnglishLass82 on Thursday, 04/12/2018 @ 17:21pm

Of all the talent that is not in This is a no brainer... Way past due,

Posted by DrRock on Saturday, 04/28/2018 @ 12:43pm

Travesty & it sux

Posted by jjkanaly on Friday, 05/18/2018 @ 22:13pm

Mamma Was A Rock & Roll Singer & Papa Used To Write All Her Songs is out as a re-issue. I love this album.

Posted by Dawn Richards on Wednesday, 06/13/2018 @ 01:51am

Lots of Sonny & Cher in the new Broadway Show: The Cher Show. It has been in Chicago in a pre-Broadway run. 3 actresses play Cher. One is Babe (young Cher), one is Lady (middle Cher, TV Star) and then older Cher. That one is STAR. The actor who plays Sonny just ages as Sonny. either way the show is fun and does a great job showing Sonny & Cher from the time they met in 1962 until he died.

Posted by Aurora1978 on Saturday, 07/7/2018 @ 23:03pm

Cher is in the new Mamma Mia 2 as Meryl Streep's Mum! Dying to hear her version of Fernando we keep seeing in the clips. This woman just goes on and on. This would have been a fun film for Sonny too.

Posted by Jann Hanz on Wednesday, 07/18/2018 @ 09:43am

hola. luv cher & luved her in mm2. her fernando song melted my heart

cher & andy garcia sizzzzzzled

viva cher

viva cher

viva cher

Posted by kyraa inesias on Thursday, 08/2/2018 @ 10:28am

We've been watching or DVRing Sonny & Cher on GetTV. Love the show! It was on long before I was born but still fun and I adore Cher's wardrobe. She and Sonny were awesome.

Posted by Jullina1985 on Sunday, 08/5/2018 @ 09:43am

In Case Your In Love is my best S&C album.

Posted by irne2001 on Sunday, 08/19/2018 @ 11:19am

Luv Cher's new song Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (A Man After Midnight). Cher is timeless and her voice is still so strong.

Posted by Naomi1988 on Tuesday, 08/28/2018 @ 02:57am

Nice Reissue coming:

Date: October, 2018

Label: BGO - BEAT GOES ON / No:BGOCD1361 / 2XCD / Country: UK

Three Atlantic Records albums from 1965, 1966 and 1967 plus a host of A and B sides of singles released by Atlantic, but not on the albums.

This collection features hits such as The Beat Goes On, But Youre Mine, I Got You Babe and Little Man.
The duo sprang to fame with I Got You Babe, which was a No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic in 1965.
Cher went on to have an amazing solo career which continues to this day.
Digitally remastered and slipcased

CD 1

01． I Got You Babe
02． Unchained Melody
03． Then He Kissed Me
04． Sing Cest La Vie
05． Its Gonna Rain
06． 500 Miles
07． Just You
08． The Letter
09． Let It Be Me
10． You Dont Love Me
11． Youve Really Got A Hold On Me
12． Why Dont They Let Us Fall In Love
13． Summertime
14． Tell Him
15． Im Leaving It All Up To You
16． But Youre Mine
17． Bring It On Home To Me
18． Set Me Free
19． What Now My Love
20． Leave Me Be
21． I Look For You
22． Laugh At Me
23． Turn Around
24． So Fine
CD 2
01． The Beat Goes On
02． Groovy Kind Of Love
03． You Baby
04． Monday
05． Love Dont Come
06． Podunk
07． Little Man
08． Well Sing In The Sunshine
09． Misty Roses
10． Stand By Me
11． Living For You
12． Cheryls Goin Home
13． Hello (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
14． Good Combination (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
15． Love Is Strange (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
16． Have I Stayed Too Long (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
17． Plastic Man (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
18． Baby Dont Go (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
19． Its The Little Things (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
20． Trust Me (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
21． Good Times (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
22． A Beautiful Story (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
23． You Gotta Have A Thing Of Your Own (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
24． Circus (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
25． Youre A Friend Of Mine (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
26． Get It Together (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
27． Hold You Tighter (bonus tracks - a & b sides)
28． Dont Talk To Strangers (bonus tracks - a & b sides)

Posted by Dannielle on Sunday, 09/2/2018 @ 23:31pm

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The last time I interviewed Cher was at her Malibu mega-mansion, and before the photo shoot, I committed a cardinal sin: I accidentally knocked over the wig she planned to wear. It toppled over and hit the kitchen floor with a thud as Cher’s glam squad looked on, horrified. Fortunately, I was assured that Cher could not possibly hear the mass squealing because her upstairs bedroom was about as far away as a football field.

Wigs once again factored into my latest rendezvous with Cher. “She was blonde yesterday; today she’s a brunette,” her European publicist whispered in my ear before we entered Cher’s suite. We met in a palatial room at the Sunset Marquis, which was illuminated only by candlelight, not unlike one of those “VH1 Behind the Music” specials from the nineties. Cher’s look could best be described as goth grandma: All black attire to match her faux locks, pale makeup, four fingers adorned with chunky silver Loree Rodkin rings and sharp nails. “My hands are really cold,” Cher said apologetically.


Cold hands, warm heart, as they say. And at 72, Cher plans to continue heating up dance floors at gay clubs all around the world — a neo-disco inferno, if you will — with her forthcoming Abba covers album, “Dancing Queen,” due out on Sept. 28. The still-sexy septuagenarian also plans to take Broadway by storm with “The Cher Show,” a musical inspired by her life that may help the Emmy, Grammy and Oscar winner to join an elite club of E.G.O.T. recipients. One thing’s for certain: She’ll take home a Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2 — the night before her debut on the Great White Way.

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Abba meets Cher. Is this the gayest thing you’ve ever done?

No! Can I tell you something? The gay community and I are like one. And I don’t think of gay guys as different from me. We just made some sort of pact long ago that we were going to be together. I’m finding out that people in the gay community are really excited. But Abba does not scream Cher. Would you ever have thought: “Oh, that’s a marriage made in heaven?”

The thing about Abba is that while their melodies are upbeat, the lyrics tend to be on the sad side.

Some of them are, like, poppy-sadness, like “Waterloo.” They’re not hurting. And then there are others like “One of Us” and “Winner Takes It All” where they’re just in tatters. I had time to really interpret the lyrics. And if you listen to “One of Us,” I had more freedom to interpret the song. I would have never thought to do it had I not done the musical [“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”] and sang “Fernando” and “Super Trouper.” There’s nothing that screams Cher and Abba. The girls sing high, Benny [Andersson] has no end riffs and Björn [Ulvaeus] writes music inside out. Which is one of things that I find really interesting: Because he doesn’t write in English, because he doesn’t think in English, he gets to the story line kind of in a weird way. But it makes the story line seem more interesting. When I was learning “Fernando,” I was thinking: “This doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t remember putting words together like this.” And then I thought: “Of course you can’t. Because the songs you’ve been doing your whole life have been thought out in English.” So actually I found a great respect for his lyrics.


You’ve said that you were surprised the songs were harder to sing than you initially thought they would be.

Because I thought that they were, like, poppy songs. And I did not realize. It wasn’t harder, but I had to think more and I had to not just toss it off. I had to sing “Fernando” twice because the first time I did it, it was awful. I thought: “I’ll go in and ace it.” Well, I went in and got my ass kicked.

Why did you dedicate the album to your mother?

Everybody asks me that but I’m so curious to know why people think it’s a strange thing. A couple reasons: My mom was my first fan. My mom and I had like mom and daughter issues, but my mom was supportive when my career was in the toilet. My mom was like: “Never give up, just keep going, you’re so talented, people are just wrong and silly, and you kick ass.” My mom is a really kick-ass woman.

The single “SOS” was recently released and I couldn’t help reading into it. It’s like a state of emergency for the state of our country.

Oh, don’t read into it. If you go on Twitter, you know I’m not sly. You can read it that way if you want, and of course it’s applicable, but I wasn’t even thinking about that at the time. Except I think it permeates my world: Trump’s insanity. To any thinking person it has to be a constant: “How the f— is this happening?”

Do you think he will finally be impeached?

I don’t think so. I really don’t. I think he will fire Jeff Sessions and he will put in this guy who is a criminal and they will close the Mueller investigation. I think that the Mueller investigation will have doubles of every piece of information that they have, and I do not doubt that Trump is guilty of everything and more. But I think that this won’t happen now — it will be saved and, at some point, it will come out.

I can’t believe it’s been 54 years since your first single, “Ringo, I Love You.” What is your first memory of that?


Phillip [Spector] didn’t want to do it. That’s my earliest memory. Because he just wasn’t that interested. And Sonny kind of just beat him down and beat him down. And then people wouldn’t play it because they said it sounds like a guy singing the song. It sounds like a ‘gay song.’

And what did you say to that?

I didn’t say anything. I was just like, “Oh, OK. Whatever.” I had no power or anything like that. I was a background singer.

You’ve won an Oscar, and Emmy and a Grammy. How interested are you in winning a Tony for “The Cher Show?”

That would be fabulous. But more importantly than winning awards, I want it to be a good show that people are impacted by. That they are taken out of this world by however long the musical lasts from the moment they’re in it. There are moments when you are acting where someone says “action” and then all of a sudden they say “cut” and you don’t remember any of it. Because you were so in the moment. And that’s what I think entertainment does. It can just take you out of your problems. When I go on stage, that’s my job.

How surreal is it to see your life on stage in a Broadway show?

It’s not that much fun. In the ways where you have told too much truth to the writer [Rick Elice].

Does it feel too revealing?

Would you want your life out there?

Nope. But you’ve always been authentic and that’s so rare for someone of your stature.

I haven’t always told the complete truth. When asked questions, I’ve tried to tell the truth that doesn’t infringe upon a part of me that I want to hold to myself. But usually it’s pretty easy to tell the truth to the questions that people ask. Because there’s a place that people don’t want to go past, you know?

Well, I want to go there with Cher! How do you feel about not being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite your upcoming Kennedy Center Honor. Does that mean anything to you?


It did for a while. Sonny and Cher made a huge impact. Those people are snobs and they don’t think of us as musicians — or don’t think of me as a musician. And the truth is I don’t give a flying f—.

How worried are you that LGBTQ rights might be threatened by the Supreme Court vacancy?

I am completely, completely terrified. If he gets to be the king he wants to be, I fear it could go to a place that none of us ever expected in our entire lives where you’d have to be really frightened. Whoever thought that someone would be able to separate children from their parents? And then have 500 left over and people are forgetting about them day by day. I mean, I lost Elijah once in a market for 40 minutes and I was hysterical. It doesn’t make any difference where they come from. But people are so traumatized by everything he says and everything he does. You know, I used to think that it was a big mistake for him to have so much tumultuous activity around him and now I think it’s brilliant. Because you just get tired and you’re waiting for the next shoe to drop. He’s like a f—ing millipede.

I want to go back to something you said when you were talking about your days as a backup singer: You had no power. Fortunately, because of the #MeToo movement, women who were victims of sexual harassment and abuse when they were young and powerless have finally come forward. Did you have any experiences like that at the time?

I had one, and I was already Cher. But I just thought really quickly on how to get out of it, and I did. I know women go through this all the time. We all go through: We’re not strong enough. We’re not stronger. And I knew I was going to get out of it. I walked in, I was going for a job. He was a famous producer. I sat down, and he just said the most off-color thing I’ve ever heard. And then reached out and put his hand on me. And my mind was, like, exploding. I said: “You know, I wasn’t really feeling well when I came over. I was really sick to my stomach, but I wanted this interview so bad that I thought when I get there everything will be fine. The truth is I am not feeling well, but this interview is so important to me that I want to come back another day.” And I just got the hell out. But women walking down the street don’t know what to do. It’s not paranoia. We’re constantly vigilant. Guys could walk down the same street and not even think about anything. But you walk down the street and you’re aware of your surroundings and who is walking towards you. You’re not doing it constantly. But sometimes the feeling happens and you have to check your list. Whatever your checklist is about what your innate responses should be, like: “Who do I think that guy is?” It just happens sometimes, but it happens. And I don’t think it happens to men. Ever.


Are you excited to tour the world once again?

I don’t know. I’m too old for this.

I went to your Farewell Tour!

Yeah? Well, so did I.

Posted by Aukland1988 on Thursday, 09/27/2018 @ 15:22pm

OK, Cher's Dancing Queen is #1 on the USA Sales Chart on Billboard. Lil' Wayne's "surprise" album is #1 due to millions of streams. The point is Cher had the biggest opening of ANY FEMALE in 2018 showing how viable she is. Still NO R&RHOF entry. A joke!

Posted by llsimms1986 on Wednesday, 10/10/2018 @ 01:49am

It seems like Cher will get in next year after Janet Jackson.

Posted by The Dude on Wednesday, 10/10/2018 @ 08:50am

I love Janet too but Cher actually did more rock. I hope Janet gets in then Sonny & Cher and Cher.

Posted by Naomi1988 on Friday, 11/9/2018 @ 10:58am

Just found another nice re-issue for Sonny & Cher 1960's recordings.

Posted by tyracrete on Friday, 11/23/2018 @ 23:07pm

More and more old Sonny & Cher stuff is available now. Still the biggest husband and wife team in music and of course Cher is still going strong.

Posted by Tom Dunn on Friday, 12/21/2018 @ 11:39am

Just saw a year end spot about the R&RHOF. It mentioned how Sonny & Cher are always snubbed along with others. Kind of sad since so many of their 1960's contemporaries are IN the HOF.

Posted by Matthew Bachan on Tuesday, 12/25/2018 @ 17:21pm

I...I could've swore they were in. Talk about some Nelson Mandela effect stuff. However, since they are not, YES! Not only are they one of, if not the most, successful husband-wife duo to enter the music industry and come out alive, but a lot of old reissues have been popping up. Thus, I can see it.

Posted by Jason Dagotto on Monday, 01/7/2019 @ 19:42pm

Jason, I feel the same way. For some reason I assumed they were in many years ago. For them it should have been by 1990! Yup, lots of interest in them since Cher is still so big. She's still an A lister and to be an A lister in Hollywood today is tough. Sonny & Cher were iconic and so part of the 60's folk rock scene.

Posted by Chrissy Telride on Friday, 01/11/2019 @ 17:38pm

With Cher still being a CAT A star, interest seems to be growing in Sonny & Cher re-issues. Always happy to see this stuff come back out. As far as the R&RHOF, kind of bogus if you ask me.

Posted by Hank1986 on Thursday, 01/17/2019 @ 04:13am

Seeing the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on Get TV is fun since it was on before I was born. The most recent one I saw was from 1972 with Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz as the guest star. Fun show. Amazing that TV used to do big variety shows.

Posted by Jennifer Antley on Sunday, 02/3/2019 @ 08:07am

Cher's anti-Trump Tweets are hysterical.

Posted by Janie Spence on Thursday, 02/14/2019 @ 09:45am

Just saw the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on GET-TV. Fun show. Cher sang Rock a Bye Baby With A Dixie Melody as her solo. Sonny and Cher did several song and skits with Andy Griffith. Wow, Andy was still a hottie. Great show and fun. I wish I had been around for the first run of this show but it was before I was born.

Posted by Kimmie P on Saturday, 03/9/2019 @ 05:14am

Got the soundtrack to the CHER SHOW. It's the cast album and has someone play/sing Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman. Fun show. Fun cast album. Now get Sonny & Cher IN the Hall.

Posted by taneese on Sunday, 04/14/2019 @ 08:24am

Saw the Cher Show and it was fun. They did a great job depicting Sonny & Cher and especially Cher's relationship with her mom, Georgia Holt.

Cher's mom is still alive and close with her.

Posted by Jon Weiss on Wednesday, 05/8/2019 @ 07:17am

The non-inclusion is bull-crap!

Posted by kkinp74@gmail.com on Saturday, 06/1/2019 @ 10:16am

Heard their Caesar and Cleo stuff from 1963-1964 and very trippy. Luv that early-mid 1960's vibe. To think Cher is still alive and viable today is amazing.

Posted by llcoolMy93 on Sunday, 06/9/2019 @ 16:07pm

Almost Laughable they are not in yet. They were massive in the 1960's and 1970's until fair Cher pulled the plug.

Posted by Desdami on Friday, 06/14/2019 @ 08:38am

Cher's famous comment: "Mom, I AM a Rich Man" is all over the place. Cher is not in because of sexism and Sonny and Cher are not in because of bad luck and politics.

Posted by Chrissy2002 on Saturday, 07/6/2019 @ 09:22am

Great piece online today about Cher being the top female choice to get into the Hall. Tina Turner came in second in the poll. Tina is already in with Ike but Cher is not in with Sonny or in as a solo artist.

Posted by Pacosun on Tuesday, 09/3/2019 @ 14:05pm

With Jann Wenner leaving, Sonny & Cher have a shot. It really is stupid for this act to not be in by now. They got together in 1962 and got into the music biz in 1963 and we so much a part of the biz. My fave song by them is Little Man followed by Just You.

Posted by jannattat on Sunday, 10/6/2019 @ 09:11am

The fact is, women were there for the
birth of rock'n'roll and at every stage since;
the Hall has just ignored them. Why weren't
Aretha Franklin, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and
Big Mama Thornton in that inaugural class?
Why did it take 32 years for Tharpe to be
inducted? Why has Thornton — singer of
the original "Hound Dog" — still not even
been nominated? While the Hall has started
inducting mediocre white male rock bands
from the 1980s and 1990s (I'm looking at
you, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi), here are
some great artists of the 1960s and 1970s
it still has not saluted: Labelle, Cher, the
Marvelettes, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton,
Celia Cruz.
Even worse has been the response from
Wenner. When asked about the Hall's lack
of diversity, the Rolling Stone founder told
the New York Times, "Musical achievements
have got to be race-neutral and genderneutral in terms of judging them." In other
words, Wenner is saying that the Dave
Matthews Band has been nominated before
the Go-Go's, despite the latter's all-female
game-changers having been eligible for 12
more years than the jam band, because of
DMB's gender-neutral musical achievements — not because the mostly white, male
nominating committee sees themselves in
this group of guys.

Posted by Undace Griffin on Friday, 11/15/2019 @ 16:51pm

Sad to see the Hall is so sexist and sad to see a great duo like Sonny & Cher are still snubbed.

Posted by meagan1996 on Friday, 01/3/2020 @ 05:49am

It Is Unbelievable that Sony and Cher are not in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame! Also Cher should have been inducted YEARS ago!

Posted by Ralph Smith on Sunday, 02/2/2020 @ 13:42pm

Just saw the Time-Life Sonny & Cher Commercial. Wow! Lots of old-school rockers guested. Nearly all were still alive back in the early 70's when their shows were on TV.

Posted by jjrithe88 on Monday, 02/17/2020 @ 15:27pm

OK, no Sonny & Cher. Very odd.

Posted by LLCox on Tuesday, 03/10/2020 @ 07:30am

I just don't understand
years ago IMO

Posted by Happy on Sunday, 03/29/2020 @ 20:36pm

My fave Sonny & Cher album is The Wonderous World of Sonny & Cher from 1966.

Posted by Yolana Corto on Wednesday, 04/8/2020 @ 12:41pm

OK, what is wrong with this picture??????

Posted by Lizelle1991 on Wednesday, 06/3/2020 @ 12:16pm

Keep seeing the Time-Life commercials for the Sonny & Cher DVD set of their 70's variety shows. We had an article in our paper saying sales were so good, Time-Life is putting out a second set focusing on CHER's variety shows (solo). Sonny & Cher were so much part of the fabric of the 1960's music scene and then again in the 70's. To not have them in the R&RHOF is sort of odd.

Posted by Jaycee1989 on Tuesday, 06/23/2020 @ 05:26am

yup, not many artists have full blown TV commercials in 2020 with their variety shows in box sets. They are still so viable even after all these decades since the 1960's.

Posted by Jaycee1989 on Thursday, 07/2/2020 @ 07:55am

Sonny & Cher's Look At Us album from 1965 and The Wonderous World of Sonny & Cher from 1966 are my 2 favorites. Their style was sort of folk rock 1960's style.

Posted by ChataDCA on Wednesday, 08/5/2020 @ 16:05pm

All I Ever Need Is You is my fave S & C album. It was done in 1971. I loved them on Cystal Clear/Muddy Waters and United We Stand.

Posted by Ashley Davison on Tuesday, 08/18/2020 @ 12:57pm

Sonny & Cher stuff has held up and sure was big back in the day. To think Cher is still going strong in the 2020's is amazing.

Posted by FrannieUK on Saturday, 10/10/2020 @ 14:03pm

Weird Sonny & Cher are still not in especially how those commercials are constantly on Time/Life of their early 1970's variety show and the fact Cher is still so active in the 2020's. My favorite Sonny & Cher era is their 1960's stuff.

Posted by jeal1985 on Friday, 11/13/2020 @ 15:20pm

Amazing Sonny & Cher still are in the public eye all these years since Sonny died. Somehow their beat has gone on and on especially thanks to fair Cher.

Posted by Yolana Corto on Saturday, 12/5/2020 @ 02:54am

Sort of pathetic of the HOF that S&C are not in by this point.

Posted by Larry E on Monday, 12/28/2020 @ 04:50am

Listening to S&C's In Case Your In Love album now. Great album and they'll get in at some point.

Posted by unisonp on Thursday, 01/7/2021 @ 15:04pm

Very odd to not be in by now considering they've been eligible for over 30 years!

Posted by lidiabrazil on Wednesday, 02/3/2021 @ 04:14am

2021 Noms are out and NO Sonny & Cher, nor CHER

Posted by Tim Delahanty on Friday, 02/12/2021 @ 00:08am

Unfair & it sucks

Posted by Jon Hanson on Sunday, 03/7/2021 @ 00:51am

Maybe they will wait until she dies. Sad if that is what they do because she deserves it while alive. Too bad Sonny did not get to see their induction. He would have loved it.

Posted by jjdenn88 on Saturday, 03/13/2021 @ 03:09am

Hope they don't' wait for her to die. Her mother is still alive so I think Cher has lots of years left.

Posted by kksummers on Wednesday, 04/7/2021 @ 05:40am

Yup, Cher posted a great pic of her mom so she is doing great like daughter Cher. OK still not in the hall. Absurd.

Posted by llyunger on Saturday, 05/15/2021 @ 16:07pm

no cher as a solo either
it sucks
sonny & cher and cher solo should have been inducted back in 1990
to think they are not in, nor cher as a solo artist when she is still so viable is wild

Posted by lance achilles on Friday, 06/4/2021 @ 22:35pm

Unreal they are not in! Bullcrap!

Posted by Daymon Emmons on Wednesday, 07/14/2021 @ 03:52am

Just got into their Two of Us LP and am finding their folk rock style fun. They went from kids in the 60's to adults in the 70's. Remarkable careers for those 2. As far as the Hall of Fame, sort of pathetic they are still not in after so many years of being eligible.

Posted by jk1995 on Tuesday, 08/3/2021 @ 05:24am

Got the Time-Life Sonny & Cher Shows and WOW! Loved them!!!!! To think that show from the early to mid/late 1970's was AFTER their big time on the charts in the 1960's! They have really survived musically and in show biz. Too bad Sonny died but Cher is sure going strong!

Posted by nilayo on Monday, 08/16/2021 @ 04:14am

No Sonny & Cher???? Makes NO sense.

Posted by kinettaafricaana on Tuesday, 09/7/2021 @ 14:52pm

No Cher or Sonny & Cher? A Travesty!

Posted by Deanna V on Sunday, 10/24/2021 @ 13:19pm

Their time will come just later.

Posted by tina b on Saturday, 11/20/2021 @ 11:33am

It just sickens me that Sonny & Cher are not in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It's a disgrace! I've listened to their music for 50 years and used to always watch their TV shows. Went to see her in concert in Las Vegas a few years ago. She is still great. Still collecting her records

Posted by Alan on Monday, 11/29/2021 @ 14:27pm

Very weird to me 2 C them not in YET?????

Posted by lannauini on Friday, 12/10/2021 @ 22:54pm

Weird to not have them in the HOF. Such a legacy 1960's act. Such a legacy 1970's act. So many acts in the HOF have had a much lesser impact than Sonny & Cher.

Posted by tammy c on Saturday, 12/18/2021 @ 09:09am

I still hear lots of Sonny & Cher stuff from the 1960's and 1970's in mainstream media. They are still relevant in 2022.

Posted by James DeRouche on Thursday, 01/6/2022 @ 03:18am

Any idea's on how to get Sonny & Cher nominated?
They were music was so vital in the 60
Does anyone have any contacts on the nominating committee?
Is a petition on Change.org a good idea?

Posted by Christy Bono on Saturday, 01/8/2022 @ 18:29pm

This is sort of nutzo to me to think they are not in. I'd have assumed they were in decades ago. I bet if Sonny were alive, he'd work on it. Cher does not care about this stuff as much. Sonny was more business oriented but either way this duo should be in there.

Posted by janeele on Tuesday, 01/11/2022 @ 11:09am

The 2022 Nominees are here and still no Sonny & Cher or CHER. Sick!

Posted by Tammy Yong on Thursday, 02/3/2022 @ 21:09pm

This oversight is a bit absurd. Sonny & Cher should have been inducted when eligible in 1990!

Posted by KikiAnneU on Tuesday, 03/1/2022 @ 08:21am

They have been eligible longer than most have had viable careers. Sonny & Cher defined 1965 and 60's pop/folk/easy listening/soft rock and continued into the mid 70's. They were an important part of musical culture in the 60's and 70's.

Posted by hyperboLEE on Tuesday, 03/15/2022 @ 07:40am

Ya, they've been eligible longer than most peeps have careers

Posted by TamTam on Monday, 04/4/2022 @ 10:09am

Love to see all the S & C clips on You Tube. Such fun.

Hard to believe there are no variety shows now.

Posted by Chrissy Tengsen on Thursday, 04/21/2022 @ 23:48pm

Seems like they just forget about Sonny + Cher, not me.

Posted by lsyols illiy on Tuesday, 05/3/2022 @ 00:53am

Sonny and Cher are rock legends, they were spawned in the Phil Spector Gold Star studios. Their classic dongs are perennials on oldies radio, folk rock was their entrance into the rock scene coupled with signature style. And Cher is a phenomenon on her own! They have bern snubbed!

Posted by ward lamb on Sunday, 05/22/2022 @ 22:53pm

WTF no Sonny & Cher and no CHER

The HOF sucks

Posted by Janette Landscome on Wednesday, 05/25/2022 @ 04:50am

No way they will not get inducted. Too many are noticing their snub now.

Posted by Janette Landscome on Thursday, 06/2/2022 @ 07:53am

Time will tell but it's gonna happen

Posted by lilisun on Saturday, 06/11/2022 @ 15:48pm

LOCO
LOCO
LOCO
LOCO
LOCO
LOCO

Posted by BrazilianPablo on Wednesday, 07/13/2022 @ 14:00pm

Sort of a travesty if you ask me

Posted by JJStone on Thursday, 08/4/2022 @ 05:13am

Sonny & Cher are still the #1 married couple of rock and roll and were part of its beginnings

Posted by Helena C on Monday, 09/5/2022 @ 18:48pm

No S&C and NO Cher???? I'm speechless

Posted by Jijuii Nelame on Sunday, 09/11/2022 @ 10:54am

Listening to In Case You're in Love now.

Posted by Dick Eldeson on Thursday, 09/22/2022 @ 13:00pm

Sonny & Cher were iconic and still are.

Posted by Yolanda Corto on Sunday, 10/2/2022 @ 22:53pm

Heard fair Cher is recording a new album in the UK

Posted by Jessie Symbuno on Wednesday, 10/26/2022 @ 13:01pm

Yup she's been back and forth recording. Hope we finally get her new album in 2023. Listening to Baby Don't Go now.

Posted by UKCherFan on Saturday, 11/5/2022 @ 02:01am

OK, I love Dolly Parton but to see Dolly inducted into the ROCK & ROLL Hall of Fame before CHER and Sonny & CHER is beyond belief. It would be like if Cher were inducted into the Country Hall of Fame before Dolly. I mean Cher is not country and Dolly is not Rock. Both of them Rock though, so I am not shading Dolly. I just find it odd to keep excluding Cher.

Posted by ChicagoCubber88 on Monday, 11/7/2022 @ 16:15pm

Dolly's IN?

CHER's NOT??????

Not sayin I don't luv Dolly cuz I do but no CHER?

Posted by Libby Young on Tuesday, 11/15/2022 @ 16:28pm

Good thing Cher is great at waiting things out. Cher as a solo is not in, and Sonny and Cher are not in. Tiring.

Posted by Kendra W on Thursday, 12/1/2022 @ 16:49pm

I think Cher should be in. Sonny & Cher...not so much.

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 12/2/2022 @ 05:26am

Alexander "AE" Edwards and Cher need to remake I Got You Babe and Tyga could do some background rap vocals

Posted by MC1989f on Tuesday, 12/6/2022 @ 12:59pm

So sad to hear Cher lost her beautiful mother, Georgia Holt. Those 2 were so close too. RIP Georgia Holt. She was a great Mom to a wonderful gal, Cher.

Posted by Debbie Lolielli on Thursday, 12/22/2022 @ 05:25am

Luving the New Year's press for Cher and Alexander "A.E." Edwards. I agree they need to team up on at least one song. She is with Warner Bros and he Univeral so both have big labels behind them, or they could record for any other label. As far as Cher NOT in the R&RHOF, a disgrace! So, Sonny & Cher recorded together from 1963-1977, Cher & Harry Nilsson recorded together in 1974, Cher and Greg Allman recorded together in 1976-1977, Cher & Gene Simmons recorded together in 1978, Cher and Les Dedek recorded together in 1980. Cher and Meatloaf recorded together in 1981, Cher & Peter Cetera recorded together in 1989, Cher and Rod Stewart recorded together in 2003. Cher & Wu-Tang Clan recorded together in 2014.

Of course, Cher worked and sang or appeared with Patti Labelle, Wolfman Jack, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Michal Jackson, Mac Davis, The Spinners, Elton John, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Eric Dane, Tennesse Ernie Ford, Art Carney, David Essex, OJ Simpson, Kris Kristoferson, Chrissy Hynde, Dolly Parton, Lennon Sisters, Linda Ronstadt, Dame Judi Dench, James Brolin, Jackson 5, Frankie Valle & the Four Seasons, Dion, Bette Midler, Christine Baranski, Bernadette Peters, Andy Williams, Rick Springfield, Lynn Anderson, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Deadsy, Ricardo Montalban, Janet Jackson, Supremes, Bobby Darin, Franco Zeffirelli, Jerry Lee Lewis, Winona Ryder, Lucille Ball, Susan Sarandon, William Friedkin, Barbra Streisand, Tatum O'Neil, Steve Martin, Chastity Bono, Grass Roots, Liza Minnelli, New Seekers, Debbie Reynolds, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eroz Ramazotti, Majic Ship, Jerry Lewis, George Sanders, Wayne Newton, Osmonds, Maggie Smith, George Burns, Beavis & Butthead, The Muppets, Demi Moore, Captain Kangaroo, Smothers Brothers, Dianah Shore, Dick Clark, Diahann Carrol, Nenah Cherry, Ike & Tina Turner Review, Joe Nameth, Barak Obama, Josh Donen, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Tubes, Karen Black, Bobby Vinton, Andy Garcia, Eric Stolz, Lily Jones, Tom Cruise, Engelbert Humperdinck, Rita Coolidge, Julie Walters, Billy Davis Jr, Flip Wilson, Carol Burnette, David Letterman, Dick Cavett, Jimmy Durante, Amanda Seyfried, Art Garfunkel, Richie Sambora, Charo, Chaz Bono, Agnetha Fältskog, Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Kiss, Benny Andersson, Judy Garland, Lily Tomlin, Norman Jewison, DeFranco Family, Pointer Sisters, Truman Capote, Glen Campbell, Bill Clinton, Tom Jones, Hugh Hefner, Sylvester Stallone, Kristen Bell, Liberace, Red Foxx, Mike Nichols, Rosie O'Donnell, Jimmy Hendrix, Sandy Dennis, Righteous Brothers, Julianne Hough, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bob Dylan, Little Richard, Darlene Love, Liam Neilson, Cydni Lauper, Dennis Quaid, Muhumed Ali, Michele Obama, Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jenner, Robert Altman, Ronald Reagon, Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Elizaberh Taylor, John BonJovi, Betty White, Hilary Clinton, Ryan O'Neil, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell, Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Marilyn McCoo, Joe Biden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elijah Blue Allman, Stanley Tucci, Björn Ulvaeus, Twiggy, Oprah, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Ricci, Raquel Welch, Pres Jimmy Carter, Jim Nabors, Danny Aeillo, Andy Griffith, Scoobie Doo, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Sedaka, Queen Elizabeth II, Kim Kardashian, Bob Hope, Howard Keel, Joel Grey, Don Knotts, Kelly Clarkson, Tony Curtis, Shelly Winters, Cam Gigandet, Raymond Burr, Barbara Eden, Captain & Tenille, Burt Reynolds, Bobby Sherman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Sylvers, Vincent Price, Jack Nicholson, George Martin (Beales) and many many many more over her 60 years in Hollywood.

Time for Cher to record with Alexander "A.E." Edwards.

Time for Sonny & Cher to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

2023 needs to be the year for new music by Cher and Alexander "A.E." Edwards AND getting Sonny & Cher in the Hall.

Posted by Kendra Wilson on Sunday, 01/1/2023 @ 15:06pm

We forget Cher met Sonny in 1962 so over 60 years ago and they began recording as Caesar & Cleo in 1963. Imagine if we could get even one unused unreleased song from those 1963-1964 Caesar & Cleo sessions.

Posted by TicTocker92 on Tuesday, 01/10/2023 @ 13:16pm

Yup, a career that has spanned 60 years. Sonny & Cher and Solo CHER needs to be inducted

Posted by janetrozmus on Tuesday, 01/17/2023 @ 01:32am

Dolly Parton is doing a Rock album to celebrate getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She is doing a bunch of Rock collaborations and wants Cher. Here is Dolly's quote: "I'm even gonna have CHER on. I been getting a song for her. We've been trying to get the right thing together. That's going to be a big thrill."

Posted by RockCher on Thursday, 01/19/2023 @ 05:17am

NEWS NOTES



The ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION has announced the nominees for induction into the ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME in 2023. The nominees are KATE BUSH, SHERYL CROW, MISSY ELLIOTT, IRON MAIDEN, JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER, CYNDI LAUPER, GEORGE MICHAEL, WILLIE NELSON, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, SOUNDGARDEN, THE SPINNERS, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, THE WHITE STRIPES, and WARREN ZEVON. Fans can vote through April 28th at vote.rockhall.com or in person at the CLEVELAND museum. Inductees will be announced in May, and the induction ceremony will take place in the fall.

Posted by Mayelle77 on Wednesday, 02/1/2023 @ 12:57pm

When they finally get around to nominating Cher (has to be soon-ish?), they should follow the Faces and New Order format and nominate her as:

SONNY & CHER / CHER

Posted by Bookhouse on Friday, 02/3/2023 @ 18:36pm

Bookhouse, Luv your idea

2 noms are better than ZERO and that's what Cher's got

Posted by Dunderhead on Sunday, 02/5/2023 @ 16:06pm

No Cher induction or nom and No Sonny & Cher induction or Nom. Unreal. This goes on year after year after year.

Posted by hymantri on Tuesday, 02/21/2023 @ 08:59am

Their time has to come soon. Maybe next year.

Posted by HamrieSun92 on Thursday, 03/2/2023 @ 15:04pm

Adore Cher and Sonny & Cher and hard to imagine them still not in the HOF but lots of things are odd now in this world. Hope this gets fixed soon.

Posted by Maiya T on Wednesday, 04/5/2023 @ 02:59am

OK, what's wrong with this picture????

Posted by LadyBugUK on Sunday, 04/16/2023 @ 08:49am

Just caught one of the Sonny & Cher Time Life commercials. Adore them. Glad that many care they are not in the hall of fame yet.

Posted by Tyra Vincent on Tuesday, 04/25/2023 @ 09:28am

Love Sonny & Cher's In Case You're In Love album from 1965. I think. Maybe 1966. A great folk-rock vibe.

Posted by Janice Dicegrin on Thursday, 05/4/2023 @ 03:57am

Sonny & Cher and Ike & Tina Turner were 2 of the most iconic married couple's in the 1960's and early 1970's. Only Cher is still alive, as Ike, Sonny and Tina have all passed. Cher lives on. RIP Tina, you will be missed. Get Sonny & Cher IN the hall as Ike and Tina are.

Posted by JazzyJen88 on Friday, 05/26/2023 @ 18:06pm

Very odd 2 me 2 have no S+C
Not Sensible

Posted by Pallo99 on Saturday, 06/3/2023 @ 01:01am

We have the In Case You're In Love LP on now.

Posted by pancreen8 on Friday, 06/9/2023 @ 05:57am

Sonny & Cher sang backup for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. For Christmas 1963 they were on the Phil Spector Christmas alum as back up. Cher is now doing her own Christmas album, so it is 60 years later. Such a shame Sony & Cher did not do a Christmas album back in the 60s or early 70s. Happy Cher is finally doing one. At least we have those fun Sonny & Cher Christmas episodes from the variety show era.

Posted by Bill Spence on Sunday, 07/2/2023 @ 11:50am

Many moons ago, I saw an interview with Sonny, and he was asked about things he had wanted to do career-wise but did not. He said he wanted to do a Christmas al bum with Cher, but it never got done. Well, here we are 60 years after Sonny & Cher began recording and finally Cher is doing one.

Posted by jj88cin on Tuesday, 07/11/2023 @ 02:29am

Glad to hear she is finally doing a Christmas album and sad she and Sonny Bono never did one.

Posted by myunsun88 on Thursday, 07/20/2023 @ 11:56am

Yes, they say her Christmas album will be NOT your mother's Christmas album. I bet it is rock.

Posted by Ortenta Canocia on Tuesday, 08/1/2023 @ 16:37pm

Sonny & Cher sang backup on Phil Spector's Christmas album in 1963. Now 60 YEARS later,
Cher is doing her own Christmas album. She is like the Phoenix and always rises! While many HOF inductees are inactive, Cher is still viable.

Posted by Jasmine91 on Tuesday, 08/29/2023 @ 05:33am

Women in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: An Update
April 02, 2023 02:52 PM Filed in: Controversy | Rock Hall Politics | Women in the Rock Hall
In recent weeks there has been renewed public interest in the amount of women in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after influential writer Jessica Hopper, annoyed about the Hall's posts celebrating Women's History Month, tweeted the sobering statistics.


Hole frontwoman Courtney Love noticed the tweets and wrote a scathing indictment of the institution in an op-ed in The Guardian.

If so few women are being inducted into the Rock Hall, then the nominating committee is broken. If so few Black artists, so few women of colour, are being inducted, then the voting process needs to be overhauled. Music is a lifeforce that is constantly evolving – and they can't keep up. Shame on HBO for propping up this farce.

If the Rock Hall is not willing to look at the ways it is replicating the violence of structural racism and sexism that artists face in the music industry, if it cannot properly honour what visionary women artists have created, innovated, revolutionised and contributed to popular music – well, then let it go to hell in a handbag.

The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde followed with a public post on Facebook dismissing the institution as "establishment backslapping" and saying she didn't want to be associated with it.

With all of that as context, here are updated graphs showing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's record of inducting women.

First, showing the split among all individuals who have been inducted (all categories):

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Next, showing the split between all-male acts versus artists with at least one woman (Performer category only):

Posted by KiKi S on Monday, 09/4/2023 @ 10:54am

Heard a clip for Cher's Christmas album. Sounds very CHER! Hope Sonny & Cher get in sooner than later!

Posted by Lynda UK on Tuesday, 09/12/2023 @ 17:22pm

Sort of am in disbelief with this. Not only are Sonny & Cher not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but neither is Cher!

Posted by Ann Spellman on Tuesday, 09/19/2023 @ 15:11pm

Sonny & Cher will prevail and get in. They must.

Posted by Denna U on Monday, 10/2/2023 @ 03:24am

Yup sure has been a minute!

Posted by Larry Paulie on Saturday, 10/14/2023 @ 16:26pm

They cannot keep them out forever. People are beginning to notice.

Posted by Yvette LeChance on Thursday, 11/2/2023 @ 19:54pm

Time will tell but it has to eventually happen. Sonny & Cher were cutting edge in 1965 and belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted by DunderheAD on Sunday, 11/19/2023 @ 16:19pm

Odd for them to not be in yet but I guess they will at some point.

Posted by deb1993 on Monday, 11/27/2023 @ 00:27am

Now that Wenner is gone, they just might have a CHANCE. He had some kind of vendetta against Cher for some reason..

Posted by Bill G on Tuesday, 11/28/2023 @ 18:10pm

At age 77, CHER is the oldest woman at CHR Radio with a NEW song: DJ Play a Christmas Song. Radio in the USA is ageist and sexist. Female artists meet radio resistance earlier than male artists. By the time female artists are 40 they struggle for mainstream airplay. Older artists like Elton Johan and Paul McCartney and others usually team up with younger hot artists to get airplay. Cher is doing this alone and at age 77 is charting on AC Radio and Mainstream CHR Radio in the USA, so a very big deal. In the music biz, this is historic. You go Girl!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Janna wade on Friday, 12/1/2023 @ 02:48am

Cher's DJ Play a Christmas Song has been #1 on the Billboard AC Chart for 3 weeks now. Not only is she #1 at AC Radio, at 77 is getting HAC Radio play and also POP Radio airplay, which is unheard of for age 77, Solo and NEW material. Now she enters the Billboard Bubbling Under Chart at #115.

Cher first entered the Billboard Bubbling Under Chart in DEC 1964 with Sonny for Baby Don't Go. That means 59 years of Billboard Charts for new material. From age 17 to age 77. No other artist has THAT distinction and with a new SOLO song.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be ashamed to not have inducted Cher and Sonny &Cher many years ago.

Posted by Pallo99 on Friday, 12/15/2023 @ 21:30pm

Cher breaks all-time UK chart record with DJ Play a Christmas Song
Pop icon becomes first solo artist to score Top 40 hits with new material in seven consecutive decades and oldest female to secure a Top 40 placing on the Official Singles Chart
Cher Chart Record Breaker
By Carl Smith | 22 December 2023
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Pop icon Cher breaks UK Official Chart records today with DJ Play a Christmas Song.

Cher becomes the first female artist to achieve a Top 40 hit with new material on the Official Singles Chart across seven consecutive decades. While Cher's UK chart debut originally came in the form of Sonny & Cher's chart-topping duet I Got You Babe in 1965, her debut solo single All I Really Want To Do broke the UK Top 40 the same month, and Cher has gone on to chart a solo single of new material in the Top 40 in every decade since.

Cher DJ Play a Christmas Song
MORE: See where every Cher song and album has charted in the UK
At 77 years, 7 months old, Cher also becomes the oldest solo female performer to secure a Top 40 on the Official Singles Chart with the lead single from her 27th studio album Christmas. DJ Play a Christmas Song breaks all the way in to the Top 20 at Number 20 this week.




This means Cher surpasses previous record-holder Shirley Bassey, the Welsh singer-songwriter being 70 years, 4 months old when The Living Tree peaked at Number 37 in 2007.

Captain Sir Tom Moore holds the record for the oldest artist to score a UK Number 1 single, being 99 years, 11 months old when Michael Ball collaboration You'll Never Walk Alone reached Number 1 in 2020.

DJ Play a Christmas Song also becomes Cher's highest-charting single in the UK in over two decades, to boot. Her last to achieve Top 20 success was The Music's No Good Without You, which peaked at Number 8 in 2001.

Cher also becomes the first-ever female artist to secure UK Top 40 singles spanning seven decades with original material.

Since the release of Sonny & Cher's chart-topping I Got You Babe in 1965, Cher's scored at least one Top 40 hit in each decade since.

Cher DJ Play A Christmas Song
MORE: WHAM!'s Andrew Ridgeley celebrates Official Christmas Number 1 single 2023 with Last Christmas
Speaking on Cher's success, Martin Talbot, Chief Executive Officer, Official Charts, says:

"Cher cements her position as a living legend this week, notching up two incredible landmarks - becoming the oldest living female to secure a Top 40 single and the only female solo artist to claim an Official Top 40 single in seven consecutive decades.

"It is incredible to consider that WHAM!'s Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael were barely taking their first steps when Cher was enjoying her first UK Number 1; almost 20 years before Last Christmas was released. Cher, we salute you!"

See 2023's Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 100 in full here from 5.45pm.
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djcarbines
23rd December 2023
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A strange chart fact, that Sam Fox once had more hits than Cher. Although it was only for a matter of weeks and Cher started to really overtake again. I think it was Walking In Memphis that saw Cher stay ahead after 8 hits each.

I'd have to look it up again to confirm but remember comparing once before when I was looking it up!

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23rd December 2023
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Shirley Bassey a "singer-songwriter"...? She's surely never written a song in her life, has she?

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Yosemite
22nd December 2023
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Congratulations to the one and only - Cher! ^_^



I love DJ Play a Christmas Song. It's become such an anthem for me. <3

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predigitalwasbest
22nd December 2023
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Brenda Lee is 79

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JK
22nd December 2023
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Gosh, you are not smart at all, Cher placed a new song, new material in the top 40, "at 77 years, 7 months old, Cher becomes the oldest solo female performer to secure a Top 40 on the Official Singles Chart"



Brenda Lee "Rocking around..." is a song from December 1962, she placed that song on the charts when she was 17, she haven't rerecord it or make a new version, it's the same song from 1962



So please learn to read and then comment



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Velvet Android
23rd December 2023
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Er, to be fair, you're both right.

The sentence in the article about charting in seven consecutive decades refers to new material.

The sentence about being oldest female to chart merely says "At 77 years, 7 months old, Cher also becomes the oldest solo female performer to secure a Top 40 on the Official Singles Chart" – which doesn't mention new material. So technically it's wrong, as she's not even the oldest solo female to secure a Top 40 place this week.

And actually, Brenda Lee isn't either – Darlene Love is 82!

Obviously your general point is absolutely correct JK, since Brenda Lee's appearance is with a 61-year-old recording and Darlene Love's is with a 60-year-old one, while Cher's is brand new.

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predigitalwasbest
23rd December 2023
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I wasn't trying to be smart. merely stating a fact. whilst i'm at it,though,i'll point out your poor grammar in the use of .." she haven't rerecord it".

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djcarbines
4 hours ago
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But Brenda Lee is having an old hit re-enter, even if we're counting the digital version only (as opposed to the 60-yr-old physical original).

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Posted by UKCherFan on Sunday, 12/24/2023 @ 13:36pm

Cher's DJ Play a Christmas Song has entered the Billboard Hot 100!

Cher's first appearance on the Billboard Charts was in Dec 1964, so 59 Years ago. Cher charted Baby Don't Go with Sonny in Dec 1964 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart. That song went top 10 in 1965. As far as the Billboard Hot 100, Cher charted her solo song All I Really Want to Do in July 1965, as well as I Got You Babe in July 1965 which ended up at #1.

Cher has charted now for 59 years on the Billboard Charts, or 58 years and 5 months on the Billboard Hot 100.

For Cher to Chart on the Billboard Hot 100 at age 77 with a SOLO song is unbelievable! Other older artists like Elton John or Paul McCartney chart on the Billboard Hot 100 by teaming up with a younger hot artist.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame treats Cher like CRAPOLA but guess what, Cher has the last laugh! What other 1960's Female artist can chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with a NEW SOLO song?? Nobody!

Posted by Greta Enlist on Thursday, 12/28/2023 @ 09:24am

Cher's achievement of charting on the Billboard Hot 100 at age 77 with a NEW song is amazing and her song was not even treated as a Christmas song. It got POP play, so she made the CHR Charts. Unreal! As it has been said, older artists like Elton Jonh and Paul McCartney team up with younger artists and chart that way or remake old songs. Cher did not do it that way, so she did it the hard way of doing a new song all alone and she did it! Maybe at 78 or older she will take the route of older artists and team up with a younger artist or two. Hope so but for now this is a very big achievement.

Odd how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame treats Cher like garbage but Cher just goes on her merry ole Cher way and her career is endless.

Posted by Larry Pennacook on Thursday, 01/4/2024 @ 06:35am

This article is full of great pics, but I cannot figure out how to get them included in this article to post it with them. The article is from Billboard Magazine.

12 Reasons Cher Belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Just thought of a 13th reason: Who's more fun than Cher?


By Paul Grein


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Cher at Balmain Ready To Wear Spring 2024 held at Palais de Chaillot on September 27, 2023 in Paris, France.
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Under the stellar leadership of John Sykes, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has broadened its definition of what constitutes rock and roll to include, well, pretty much anything that has a young, contemporary, rule-breaking attitude and spirit.

Which makes us wonder why Cher has never even nominated for the Rock Hall. She has always had a young attitude, even today, at age 77. Telling the Rock Hall to "you-know-what themselves" as she did last week on national TV, is a pretty rock and roll thing to do.

Appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday Dec. 15, Cher said "And I'm not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!." After the studio audience let out a collective groan, Cher told them it was okay with her. "You know what, I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars. I'm not kidding you. I'm never going to change my mind. They can just you-know-what themselves," Cher said to applause.

Who can really blame her for feeling that way after so many years of being bypassed? Sonny and Cher, as a duo, and Cher solo, have been eligible for the Rock Hall since 1990 – which was 25 years after their breakthrough hits, "I Got You Babe" and "All I Really Want to Do," respectively.



Some of the female artists who Cher paved the way for, with her irreverence and artistic boldness, are already in the Hall – most notably Madonna. When Madonna was still in grade school, Cher became adept at turning controversy to her advantage. As Sonny Bono once said "She liked to do things for the shock they created. She still does. She'll create some controversy and then tell her critics to stick it." Sound familiar?

It's a safe bet that the Rock Hall will embrace Miley Cyrus soon after she becomes eligible in 2031. Like Cher, Cyrus has had an unorthodox career, with some missteps and head-scratching moves, but also flashes of brilliance.

Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour and accompanying film, with its focus on fashion and style, shows Cher's influence. Lady Gaga's entire career owes a debt to Cher.

The Rock Hall's expansion of its definition of rock and roll was essential if the Hall was to avoid becoming a museum recognizing a niche genre; the sound of a previous generation. But it has made it far harder to get a sense of who qualifies as rock and roll and who doesn't. If ABBA, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton are in, what's the rationale for leaving Cher out?

Cher is still active. She released her first Christmas album on Oct. 20. It features duets with Cyndi Lauper, Michael Bublé, Tyga and Rock Hall members Stevie Wonder and Darlene Love. And as her blast at the Rock Hall shows, Cher still knows how to speak her mind and attract attention.

Here are 12 reasons Cher belongs in the Rock Hall.

Sonny & Cher were part of the mod pop/rock scene of the mid-1960s.
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher
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Their early hits "I Got You Babe," "Baby Don't Go" and "The Beat Goes On" brought the spirit of contemporary pop/rock to the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Sonny Bono wrote all three of these fine songs.) Sonny & Cher may have been on the pop side of pop/rock (compared to such contemporaries as The Byrds), but with both their sound and their look, they were definitely on the pop/rock spectrum.



Cher was one of the first artists to have a big hit with a Bob Dylan song.

Cher's version of Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do" peaked at No. 15 on the Hot 100 in August 1965 (while "I Got You Babe" was No. 1). The Byrds' version peaked at No. 40 that same week. Cher had a top 15 hit with a Dylan song before Dylan did (!) – though he made the top 15 the following week with "Like a Rolling Stone."

For the record, Peter, Paul & Mary were the first artists to have a big hit with a Dylan song ("Blowin' in the Wind" and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"). Then came The Byrds with "Mr. Tambourine Man." And then Cher.



Cher brought a rock sensibility to prime-time TV.

The biggest hurdle to Cher being taken seriously for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is probably the smash success of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, an instant hit when it premiered in 1971. As a high-schooler at the time, I enjoyed the "Vamp" song she sang every week, but some of the sketches were not exactly comedy gold.

But the show (and solo spinoffs for both Sonny and Cher and an inevitable reunion series) gave airtime to a lot of rock artists. Elton John, Bette Midler and Flip Wilson were the guests on the pilot of Cher, which aired in February 1975. That's a pretty hot lineup for a variety show of that era. Of this foursome, only Wilson, whose variety show was a smash hit in the early 1970s, did not have a decades-long career. Linda Ronstadt, Ike & Tina Turner, David Bowie (in his U.S. television debut), The Jackson 5 and Patti LaBelle were also guests on the Cher show.



Cher's unorthodox career moves have always shown a rebellious, restless spirit.

Cher was making big money playing Las Vegas in 1981, but gave it up to go to Broadway and appear in the ensemble of Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, which played for six weeks in early 1982. Her decision to bet on herself paid off right away: Director Mike Nichols caught the show and cast her in Silkwood, which opened the following year.

Cher won an Oscar for Moonstruck in April 1988, but she was equally focused at the time on her recording career, and specifically on recording pop/rock material rather than the pop story-song novelties ("Half-Breed," "Dark Lady") that had given her her biggest solo hits. One month before she won the Oscar, she had a top 10 hit with the rock ballad "I Found Someone." The very week she won the Oscar, she entered the Hot 100 with the follow-up hit, "We All Sleep Alone," co-written by Rock Hall members Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.

Her other rock-edged hits of this period were "If I Could Turn Back Time" (the quintessential Cher hit, and one of Diane Warren's best songs, too), "Just Like Jesse James," "Heart of Stone" and a cover of Betty Everett's 1964 smash "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" which Cher recorded for her Mermaids, her first film after Moonstruck.

Cher once said that her hit years on Geffen Records (1987-91) had been especially meaningful to her, "because I was getting to do songs that I really loved … songs that really represented me, and they were popular!"


Cher has been a role model for a generation of younger female stars.

In 2018, Dazed's Shon Faye put it this way: "If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie [Minogue] and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on, and the sun that shone down on them."

At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Gwen Stefani presented Cher with the Billboard Icon Award, calling Cher "a role model for showing us how to be strong and true to ourselves [and] the definition of the word Icon."

In her 2019 music video for "You Need to Calm Down," Taylor Swift has a framed copy of a Cher quote, "Mom, I am a rich man," on the wall. The quote comes from Cher's 1996 interview with Jane Pauley on Dateline NBC in which Cher related the story of her mother urging her to "settle down and marry a rich man," to which Cher replied, "Mom, I am a rich man."

In 2018, Cyndi Lauper, Little Big Town and Adam Lambert performed when Cher received the Kennedy Center Honors. It's very easy to see Cher's imprint on the versatile Lauper and the flamboyant Lambert.

In 2021, Cher guest-starred as God in P!nk's music video for "All I Know So Far." The two stars have some history. P!nk told Billboard in 2019 that she started studying aerial silks after watching Cher's dancers perform on them in Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004.


Cher was among the first female artists to undertake a massively successful solo tour.

Cher has headlined seven major concert tours, including Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002-05), which was one of the top 10 highest-grossing tours of that decade, according to Billboard Boxscore. For the first half of the decade, it was second only to The Rolling Stones' Licks Tour in total grosses.

Initially scheduled for 49 shows, the worldwide tour was extended several times. By October 2003, it had become the most successful tour ever undertaken by a female headliner. The 236-date tour finally ended in 2005 after having played to more than 3.5 million fans and earning more than $250 million.



A tour stop at American Airlines Arena in Miami on Nov. 8, 2002 formed the basis of a TV special which aired on NBC five months later. The special attracted nearly 17 million viewers and brought Cher a Primetime Emmy for outstanding variety, music or comedy special. She joined an impressive array of women who have won in that category for one-woman concert specials, including Liza Minnelli (Liza With a Z), Barbra Streisand (Barbra: The Concert) and, later, Adele (Adele: One Night Only).

Despite the claim implicit in the tour's title (The Farewell Tour), Cher has since headlined two more tours – Dressed to Kill Tour (2014) and Here We Go Again Tour (2018-20).


Many music critics (OK, not the grumpy ones) are Cher fans who might just cheer her selection.

In 2019, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield stated that "there are no other careers remotely like hers, [particularly] in the history of pop music" and referred to Cher as "the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music."

In 2014, James Reed from The Boston Globe noted "Along with David Bowie, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in flux and challenging our perceptions of her."

Billboard's Joe Lynch wrote in 2017 "…It seems odd to say anyone as famous as Cher is under-appreciated: the woman has five No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, an Oscar for best actress and has remained a household name for half a century. Even so, Cher's impact as a musical force is unfairly disregarded or minimized. … Years before David Bowie toyed with gender-bending, Cher brought her deep contralto voice to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with Sonny Bono on 'I Got You Babe' in 1965, and in the ensuing slew of TV appearances, she brought her defiantly androgynous looks into households across America."

In 1996, Jancee Dunn wrote in Rolling Stone, "Cher is the coolest woman who ever stood in shoes. Why? Because her motto is, 'I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.' There are folks all over America who would, in their heart of hearts, love to date people half their age, get multiple tattoos and wear feathered headdresses. Cher does it for us."

Writing in The Advocate in 2003, Alec Mapa noted: "While the rest of us were sleeping, Cher's been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies … Cher embodies an unapologetic freedom and fearlessness that some of us can only aspire to."


Cher's selection would boost the number of women in the Hall.

When we spoke to John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, in May, he said "Prior to 2019, about 14%-15% of the inductees were women. In the last five years, it has been almost 25%. We're not there yet, but we're seeing the inductees class evolve not only in sound but gender."


You want "attitude"? Hello!

When we spoke to Sykes, we also discussed Willie Nelson, who had been eligible since at least 1987. This was the first time the country legend had appeared on the ballot and he got in. "He had one of the highest vote totals in the history of the Hall of Fame," Sykes revealed. "He scored a huge number. It reflects too how the voting [body] understands that rock and roll is not a single sound. It's an attitude and if anyone has attitude, it's Willie Nelson."

If it's attitude they want, Cher invented attitude. She exhibited an IDGAF attitude long before anyone had coined that acronym.


Longevity? Check.

The Rock Hall doesn't want to let in people who haven't stood the test of time. I think they're OK with Cher on that score.

Her high-charting albums on the Billboard 200 span more than 53 years, from Sonny & Cher's Look at Us, which began an eight-week run at No. 2 on Sept. 11, 1965, to her own Dancing Queen (a collection of songs by Rock Hall members ABBA), which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on Oct. 13, 2018.

Her No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 span nearly 34 years, from Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe," which reached No. 1 on Aug. 14, 1965, to her solo smash "Believe," which ended a four-week reign on April 3, 1999.

Both "I Got You Babe" and "Believe" are notable No. 1 hits. "I Got You Babe" is a reminder that a song can be simple and still convey profound truths. Rock Hall member Chrissie Hynde was featured on UB40's 1985 cover version of the timeless smash. "Believe," of course, was highly influential in its use of Auto-Tune. It brought Cher her first (and only) Grammy for best dance recording. The smash was also Grammy-nominated for record of the year, 34 years after Sonny & Cher were nominated for best new artist.


Cher helped put The Met Gala on the map.
Cher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Insitute Gala Exhibition 'Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design'
Cher and Bob Mackie attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Insitute Gala Exhibition 'Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design' on November 28, 1974 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Photo : Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images
Even those of us who don't know the first thing about fashion can recognize that The Met Gala has become the place to see and be seen for many A-list pop stars. Cher wore a feather-and-crystal-encrusted gown, designed by Bob Mackie, to the 1974 Met Gala. (You know the dress, which gave the illusion, at least, of nudity – she wore it again when she made the cover of TIME in March 1975 under the cover line Gladrags to Riches).

"The dress" paved the way for other scene-stealing outfits, such as Jennifer Lopez's cut-down-to-there dress on the Grammys in 2000.

Vogue's André Leon Talley told Billboard in 2017: "It was really the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended [The Met Gala], and it changed everything. We are still seeing versions of that look on The Met red carpet 40 years later."


Wearing this outrageous outfit at the 1986 Oscars was a pretty rock and roll thing to do.
Cher Backstage at Academy Awards
Cher backstage at the 58th Annual Academy Awards held at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles on March 24, 1986.
Photo : Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
In early 1986, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences requested that all nominees and presenters dress in a way that would maintain the decorum of the evening. When Cher wasn't even nominated for her acclaimed performance in Mask, she asked her pal Bob Mackie to design the most outlandish outfit ever worn on an awards show. He rose to the challenge and she wore the gaudy and garish outfit to the Oscars on March 24, 1986, where she was a presenter.

After letting the audience take in the one of the greatest sight gags in Oscar history, Cher said "As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress."

Posted by Jay Wright on Monday, 01/8/2024 @ 04:51am

Posted by Jay Wright on Monday, 01/8/2024 @ 04:52am

Viva Cher!
Viva Sonny & Cher canciones!

Posted by Argentina Cher on Friday, 01/19/2024 @ 09:21am

Fell in love with Cher from her Geffen era stuff. It was sort of a Bon Jovi sound. I then discovered her earlier stuff. Wow. So many eras and then her stuff with Sonny and now I am seeing all her stuff with Sonny on You Tube. Amazing! Their show had all the Rock and Roll legends of the 1950's and 1960's on.

Posted by Toronto Cher Gal on Thursday, 02/1/2024 @ 14:57pm

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Saturday, February 10, 2024ROCK HALL REVEALS 2024 NOMINEES
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled its 2024 nominees. As in other recent years, the list covers a multitude of genres, encompassing hip-hop, R&B, pop, rock, alternative, soul and funk.

So without further ado, here are this year's contenders: Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Eric B. & Rakim, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Jane's Addiction, Kool & the Gang, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis, Sinéad O'Connor, Ozzy Osbourne, Sade and A Tribe Called Quest.

Ten of the 15 nominees are on the ballot for the first time: Carey, Cher, Foreigner, Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Kravitz, Oasis, O'Connor, Osbourne and Sade. Inductees will be announced in late April; the induction ceremony will take place in Cleveland this fall.

The show will once again stream live on Disney+, with a special airing on ABC at a later date; it will also be available to stream on Hulu the next day. Last year the ABC special reached more than 13m viewers via TV and streaming.

Congratulations to all the nominated artists, including Cher, who recently said, "I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars… They can you-know-what themselves." Happy Valentine's Day to you, too.

Rumors that Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Chairman John Sykes will perform a rare acoustic set have yet to be confirmed.

Posted by Tom Dunn on Saturday, 02/10/2024 @ 14:14pm

Very sad about Jann Wenner and his sexism and bad behavior. Glad mistreatment and belittling of women is not as much a factor now. So many women in music should be in that Hall. Cher is a great place to start since she has been eligible for so long it is almost comical. Sonny & Cher should be in there as well. I bet if it had been Sonny & Sam, they would have been inducted eons ago. The fact that Jann Wenner did not like Cher personally should not have even been a factor. It is about her music and influence in the music biz. Unlike so many artists already IN the Hall, Cher continues to do new projects and is still on contract with a major label, Warner Brothers Records.

Posted by Karlina Osoro on Wednesday, 02/14/2024 @ 07:11am

How could Cher or Sonny & Cher not be part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by now? Careers going back to 1963 too.
The sexism in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is so rampant but hopefully now, things will be better. Cher and then sonny & Cher need to get into the hall ASAP.

Posted by Kristine Spencer on Saturday, 03/2/2024 @ 06:30am

So, finally CHER is nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sonny & Cher should have been inducted long ago. 60 years is a long time. Once CHER is in, time for Sonny & Cher to get in.

Posted by UKCherFan on Sunday, 03/17/2024 @ 00:33am

Cher has her nom and now Sonny & Cher need one. Still the most successful husband wife team even now all these decades later.

Posted by LLancean8 on Tuesday, 03/26/2024 @ 18:21pm

Cher was like the high Priestess of the iHeart Music Awards. Meryl Streep did a wonderful presentation for her, and Jennifer Hudson did Believe and then Cher came out and joined her. Cher and Jennifer Hudson belted it and had a blast together. Cher is an icon and iHeart gets it, The R&RHOF never got the memo.

Posted by Larry Welch on Thursday, 04/4/2024 @ 10:21am

up, saw Chergirl on that iHeart show and adored her. Great performance and she must get her induction. Time 2 see Sonny and Cher and our Cher get in.

Posted by Jasmine91 on Friday, 04/12/2024 @ 22:28pm

Time will tell but the Gods appear finally inlined with her. First get our favorite Divette in, then her and Sonny. Cher deserves her solo induction and Sonny deserves his as the brains behind Sonny & Cher.

Posted by Yvette LeChance on Thursday, 04/18/2024 @ 12:35pm

Finally, she did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now for Sonny & Cher!

Posted by Hank Tyler-Ames on Wednesday, 05/1/2024 @ 20:15pm

Congrats to Cher for getting her very late induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Time for her and Sonny to do it as well once and for all.

Posted by Larry Welch on Tuesday, 05/7/2024 @ 06:15am

After a super long wait, Cher is getting in, so now we need Sonny & Cher!

Posted by UndiceGriffin on Friday, 05/17/2024 @ 14:34pm

Only time will tell but it seems unlikely Sonny & Cher will not get in. Nearly impossible to believe they are not in but look how long it took them to get Cher in as a Solo artist. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cher have never mixed well, and it is a huge shame.

Posted by Dave Differton on Wednesday, 05/29/2024 @ 21:14pm

OK, now Cher is IN and Sonny & Cher must be next up in 2025!!!!!!!

Posted by Gwennie Y on Sunday, 06/2/2024 @ 09:59am

Hooooooooooooooray for CHER! Now it is time for Sonny & Cher!

Posted by Diceogyin on Tuesday, 06/18/2024 @ 16:32pm

Just heard the really great news on satellite radio that fair Cher is finally getting inducted. Such a long wait for Cher to get in. Now Sonny & Cher need to get in.

Posted by Darcee Lane on Thursday, 07/4/2024 @ 11:10am

Cher and of course Sonny and Cher were icons of the 1960's and 1970's. 4 it 2 takes DECADES to get Cher in is just plain dumb. Now on the getting Sonny & Cher in.

Posted by Bree Sommers on Friday, 07/12/2024 @ 09:34am

Maybe next year???????????

Posted by UndiceGriffin on Friday, 07/26/2024 @ 18:31pm

How about NO???

Posted by EDS on Monday, 07/29/2024 @ 11:33am

Is Cher going to accept the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
"I'm going to have some words to say," she said. "I'm going to accept it as me." Last month, it was announced that Cher would be among this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.

Posted by Jason S on Thursday, 08/1/2024 @ 08:24am

Very sad how one man, Jann Wenner, a sexist, hated Cher and prevented Cher and of course Sonny & Cher of their entrance into the Hall. Thankfully Jann Wenner left in disgrace and almost immediately Cher was admitted. Now on to Sonny & Cher!

Posted by Donna Gustavson on Tuesday, 08/6/2024 @ 10:08am

Sort of shocked no Cher until this year and no S&C. Weird omission 2 me.

Posted by CherFanFromUK on Monday, 08/19/2024 @ 19:09pm

I am too young to remember them live but have caught up with them on You Tube. Wow. What careers they had. Never has there been a couple like them either. Love their music and chemistry.

Posted by Jilly Franks on Saturday, 08/24/2024 @ 06:00am

Finally, 60 YEARS into her still viable career. OK, we got CHER in and now on to Sonny & Cher!

Posted by Jilly Franks on Monday, 09/2/2024 @ 06:37am

Glad our Fair Cher is IN, but Sonny & Cher are not and need to be. Time will be soon, I think, I hope. Maybe in 2025 or 2026.

Posted by Scottish Cher on Friday, 09/6/2024 @ 00:04am

I love their Two of Us album from 1965.

Posted by Tim Singleton on Wednesday, 09/11/2024 @ 21:24pm

There has never been a married couple in the music biz like them. They ruled in the 1960's and 1970's and new younger fans keep learning about them and enjoying them.

Posted by Papacita88 on Sunday, 09/15/2024 @ 17:26pm

Dua Lipa "is officially set to take the stage to celebrate 2024 [R&RHOF] Inductee Cher."

Posted by Darren Lovre on Saturday, 09/28/2024 @ 11:02am

OUR CHER IS IN!
NOW ON TO SONNY & CHER

Posted by libbyceaswoth on Wednesday, 10/2/2024 @ 19:53pm

Caught Cher on the Victoria Secret show and she was awesome. So far into a long career and she still is our CHER! Happy and thrilled Cher is on her way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and now to get Sonny & Cher in!

Posted by Mark Apple on Wednesday, 10/16/2024 @ 13:54pm

I tried to post the great pic of Cher with Dua Lipa, and the wonderful Zendaya but could not figure out how to post it.
Wonderful pic of all 3 of them at the R&RHOF this week.


Dua Lipa, Cher and Zendaya at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction.
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Posted by Elizabette Vronerson on Tuesday, 10/22/2024 @ 13:39pm

Time 2 get this wonderful duo in!!! long wait but they will get inducted!

Posted by Lanya 55 on Thursday, 10/24/2024 @ 01:16am

OK, IMHU, we now have Cher in so now time for Sonny & Cher to be in!

Posted by South Africa Cher Fan on Tuesday, 11/5/2024 @ 01:56am

Cher did it, now Sonny & Cher need to. When, who knows.

Posted by kendri4 on Tuesday, 11/19/2024 @ 14:07pm