Cher was one of many inductees ultimately night time’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame ceremony, and Dua Lipa got here alongside for the journey. Under, watch them do “Imagine” collectively, joined by the Roots, together with Cher’s induction speech—launched by Zendaya—and efficiency of “If I May Flip Again Time.”
“The place do I even start?” Zendaya began her speech. “There’s not one individual on this room, on this nation and just about in the entire world who doesn’t know who I’m right here to honor tonight. So iconic, she solely wants one identify….. She does all of it and, could I add, actually fucking properly.”
In her personal speech, Cher joked about her overdue induction, having mentioned final 12 months that she would refuse the consideration have been it provided. “It was simpler getting divorced from two males than it was to get into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame,” she mentioned final night time. “I need to thank my guardian David Geffen, as a result of yeah, he wrote a letter and despatched it to the administrators and so… ha ha, right here I’m.” She later added, “The one factor I’ve by no means executed, is I by no means quit,” she defined. “And I’m speaking to the ladies, okay.… we’ve been down and out, however we preserve striving, and we preserve going and we’re any individual. We’re particular.”
Cher got here to prominence in 1965, as half of the folk-rock duo Sonny and Cher with then-husband Sonny Bono, and shortly launched the solo singles “Bang Bang (My Child Shot Me Down)” and “You Higher Sit Down Youngsters.” The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, which ran for 3 seasons between 1971 and 1974, made Cher a tv persona as properly. She and Bono had one little one collectively—Chaz, in 1969—and divorced in 1975.
Within the ’70s, Cher scored three primary hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100—“Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves,” “Half-Breed,” and “Darkish Woman”—changing into the feminine solo artist with probably the most No. 1 singles in U.S. historical past. She pivoted to disco with 1979’s Take Me House, then to appearing within the mid-80s, successful an Academy Award for her main position reverse Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck.
Cher has the distinctive distinction of being the one solo artist thus far with Billboard No. 1 singles in seven consecutive a long time, from the Nineteen Sixties by the 2020s. Launched in 1998, “Imagine”—among the finest songs of the Nineteen Nineties—was the best-selling single of all time within the UK by a feminine artist, popularizing the usage of AutoTune. Cher has remained within the public consciousness: starring in Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more in 2018, acting at this 12 months’s Victoria’s Secret style present, and infrequently going viral for her pleasant Twitter/X posts.
