Sonny and Cher
When struggling songwriter and publicist Salvatore Bono met 16-year-old runaway Cher Sarkisian in a Los Angeles Club in 1962, he saw the possibility that he could make her into a performer. What neither of them could have seen was how phenomenal the musical act "Sonny and Cher" would become over the next decade. Sonny and Cher materialized on the pop scene in 1965. Their second radio hit, "I Got You Babe," sold 3 million copies and became their signature song, while their first album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), shot to second place on the charts. To a generation of teenagers looking for a more serious message than that found in the pop of the early 1960s, Sonny and Cher represented an exciting new rebellious style. Often pictured with sullen expressions, both had long dark hair and wore clothes that were outlandish even by hippie standards: wide bell-bottomed jeans with fur vests and boots and large peace medallions. The words to their songs were often filled with the resentful pain ofthe outsider, and their voices complimented the words perfectly: Cher's, deep and soulful, and Sonny's, nasal and sneering. Adding to the mystique was their relationship; they might be alienated from society, but they had each other, a very appealing concept to their young audience.
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