(Vocals, b. 1946) Born Cherilyn Sarkasian La Pier in California, her early career yielded hits such as ‘All I Really Want To Do’ (1965) and ‘Gypsys, Tramps And Thieves’ (1971), alongside successes with husband, Sonny Bono (‘I Got You Babe’, ‘All I Ever Need Is You’). She emphasized her Native American heritage on ‘Half-Breed’ (1973) and ‘Dark ...
(Vocal duo, 1964–76) Jobbing Hollywood songwriter and arranger Sonny Bono linked up, both professionally and romantically, with Cher La Pier, a session singer, for a handful of misses before striking gold with 1965’s chart-topping ‘I Got You Babe’. Its vague if fashionable ‘protest’ tenor, the overnight sensation’s proto-hippy appearance and an element of boy-girl ickiness ...
(Är-tür’ Ô-ne-gâr’) 1892–1955 Swiss composer Honegger studied in Paris, and was soon bracketed with five French contemporaries as ‘Les Six’, but his idiom was tougher and less Gallic than theirs. He made his name with a powerful, neo-Handelian scenic cantata Le roi David (‘King David’; first performed at an outdoor festival in Switzerland, 1921). He wrote orchestral works ...
her concerts and recorded several of his songs, prefiguring numerous other successful pop-oriented covers by the likes of The Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Judy Collins, Sonny and Cher, Manfred Mann, The Turtles and, most famously, The Byrds, during the next few years. In the meantime, while Dylan’s influence was spreading on both ...
‘I Walk On Gilded Splinters’ and the title track of his debut album Gris Gris (1968), which Dr. John had recorded during studio time left over from a Sonny and Cher session on which he had worked. This album and its follow-up, Babylon (1969), were especially heavy on voodoo symbolism and social commentary, often with the sounds layered so ...
his third wife, country singer Tammy Wynette, and joined the Grand Ole Opry. For a few years, Jones and Wynette were something akin to the Sonny And Cher of country music. They appeared together regularly on the Opry and recorded a string of best-selling duets, including ‘Take Me’ (1971), ‘The Ceremony’ (1972) and ‘We’re Gonna Hold On’ ...
making him an unlikely rock icon. Its successor, Dead Ringer (1981), did even better in the UK, topping the charts, with ‘Dead Ringer For Love’ – featuring Cher as co-vocalist – also a hit. Meat Loaf released several pot-boiling collections before reuniting with Steinman for Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993), which was a transatlantic ...
results were disappointing. In 2002, after a successful operation for thyroid cancer, Stewart embarked on a series of albums called The Great American Songbook featuring guest appearances by Cher, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and Elton John. The series revitalized Stewart’s career and Stardust … The Great American Songbook Volume III (2004) gave him his first US No. ...
album chart in the early 1970s, relying less on instinct and thrilling margin of error than technical precision. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Sonny & Cher | Sixties | Rock ...
years, he would play on hundreds of hit records, including releases by Leo Sayer, Boz Scaggs, Alice Cooper, Barbra Streisand, The Pointer Sisters, Cher and Cheap Trick – in the 1970s alone. Toto garnered a lot of buzz with their debut album, and exploded two years later with Toto IV (1982), but after ...
flavour. ‘Ramblin’ Man’ became another huge hit for the band. The Road Goes On Forever Around 1974 the group started to fall apart. Gregg Allman’s tumultuous marriage to rock singer Cher, his solo career and problems with substance abuse made it hard for the band to stay consistent. Two years later the Allman Brothers Band broke up, with Betts ...
Crossroads (1989), New Beginning (1995) – which included the huge US hit ‘Give Me One Reason’ – and 2000’s Telling Stories. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | Cher | Eighties | Rock ...
Of Glass’. Some artists even seemed to become disco for one week only, and not simply to revive a flagging career – the list of opportunists included Kiss, Cher, Bryan Adams, Queen, Bay City Rollers, Burt Bacharach and Diana Ross. Some key musical innovations went hand in hand with the rise of disco. DJs fuelled ...
Many, many others also contributed to the sessions, ranging from King Curtis, Herb Alpert, Harry Nilsson and Lenny Bruce to Brian Wilson, Billy Preston, Cher and Dr. John. After running the musicians through each of their parts and rehearsing them incessantly, Spector would record countless takes until the sound approximated what he envisaged in ...
Despite initial comparisons to her fellow Londoner, the late Amy Winehouse, and other female soul acts – Adele has been likened to everyone from the late Whitney Houston to a combination of Joni Mitchell and Carole King – there’s no denying she is now widely thought of as a unique talent. ‘I keep getting called “the new Amy Winehouse” and ...
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