Cher

She released the album Live: The Farewell Tour later in 2003, a collection of live tracks taken from the tour, and could be seen playing as herself in the Farelly Brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003) with Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. The current status of the awards is unknown. In the fall of 2003, Cher won her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. The awards have lessened in importance and prestige, disappearing entirely for a period during the 1999s. It was later nominated for 7 Emmy Awards. The Eagle Awards were launched in 1976, named in honour of The Eagle comic. She found success on television once again in the spring of 2003 with Cher: The Farewell Tour Live From Miami. In 1999 Wizard magazine launched its Wizard Fan Awards, chosen through two rounds of voting by the magazine's readers.

By July, it had been certified platinum, and later, double platinum. The Comics Buyer Guide has been giving annual awards, chosen by reader poll, since 1983. This album peaked at #4 on the Billboard album chart, and again extended her album chart span to over 38 years. Alley Awards had ceased to be presented by the start of the 1970s. In April of 2003, she released The Very Best of Cher, a double CD collection of all of her greatest hits spanning her entire career. The Alley Awards, presented by the fanzine Alter Ego, began in 1961, with the awards decided by the fanzine's team of editors. Also in 2002, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year and the special Artist Achievement Award at the Billboard Music Awards. These are awarded by Friends of Lulu, an organisation concerned with furthering the appeal of comic books to a female audience.

Her performance there was 325 shows and nearly three years after the tour first began, and 40 years after Sonny and Cher had first performed there. The Lulu Awards were also created in 1997. Cher finished big, performing two shows in April 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl. The Ignatz Awards, begun in 1997, are awarded annually at the Small Press Expo, and the attendees of the Expo vote for the winners based on a shortlist drawn up by independent judges. The tour became the most successful tour ever by a female artist, grossing over 250 million dollars, and playing to over 3 million people around the world, including the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe (16 countries), Australia, and New Zealand. The Eisner nominations are decided by a panel of five judges before being voted on by retailers, creators and publishers within the industry. Cher performed on New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas in both 2004 and 2005. The Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards were also launched in 1988, named in honor of Will Eisner.

It was extended numerous times, continuing throughout all of 2003, all of 2004, and even into 2005. Voting for the Harvey Awards is performed through a ballot of industry proffesionals. Repeat performances were added in several major cities. The Harvey Awards were named in honor of Harvey Kurtzman, and include the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. Cher and her dancers made complete costume changes for almost every song and performed hits spanning her entire career. In 1988 two separate awards were launched, both aimed at the comic book industry. It featured vintage performance and video clips from the 60's onward, of each of her successes in music, television, and film, all set amongst an elaborate backdrop and stage set-up, comlete with backing band, singers and dancers. These awards ran until 1987 before a dispute over the ownership of the awards led to their ending.

The show itself was a tribute to her nearly 40 years in show business. The awards were sponsored by Fantagraphics through their magazine Amazing Heroes. The tour kicked off in June of 2002 and faced overwhelmingly positive reviews right from the start. In 1984 the Kirby Awards, named for Jack Kirby, were launched, aimed specifically at the comic book industry. In June of 2002, at the age of 56, Cher announced plans for the "Living Proof Farewell Tour", which she claimed would be the final live tour of her career, though she vowed to continue recording and releasing music. The awards had a very short life, and were no longer being presented by the late 1970s. In May of 2002, Cher again performed on the HBO telvesion special Divas2002: Divas Las Vegas. The Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards, also known as Shazams, were created in 1970, the first awards being given out in 1971.

The album was eventually certified gold. They were named in honor of Rube Goldberg and are presented annually by the National Cartoonists Society of the United States. While not nearly as commercially successful as its predesessor, with no singles reaching the Top 40, Living Proof still included several re-mixed songs which found their way onto the Hot Dance, Maxi-Single Sales, Club Play and AC charts. The first awards designed specifically for cartoonists in the United States were the Reubens, followed in 1946. This also gave Cher a Billboard album chart span of more than 37 years. The Pulitzer Prizes have included an award for Editorial Cartooning since 1999. Living Proof entered the Billboard album chart at #9, making it her highest-charting album debut. Each country has its own indigenous awards.

In February of 2002, still in dance mode, she released the highly anticipated follow-up to Believe. There are numerous awards given out within the comics industry, some taking their name from noted creators, others from famous characters or publications. In May of 2000, Cher was presented with the Lifelong Contribution to the Music Industry Award at the World Music Awards by Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith. Computers are widely used for both letteting and coloring, with Blambot Comicraft two studios which proved digitised fonts for comics. The "Believe Tour" continued throughout 2000, becoming Cher’s most successful tour. Brian Bolland is one artist who works solely with computers now, whilst Dave McKean combines the paper and the digital methods of composition. The Emmy-nominated television special Cher: Live at the MGM Grand In Las Vegas aired by year’s end. With the growth of computer processing power and ownership, there are now an increasing number of examples of comic books or strips where the art is made by using computers, either mixing it with hand drawings or replacing hand drawing completely.

Later in 1999, Cher co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Franco Zeffirelli film Tea With Mussolini (1999) with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Lily Tomlin before embarking on the successful worldwide "Believe Tour", which toured throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Process white is a thick opaque white handy for covering mistakes, whilst adhesives and tapes are helpful in composition where an image may need to be assembled from different sources. Cher performed on the highly-rated television special Divas Live 1999, and appeared onstage in a memorable performance alongside contemporaries Tina Turner and Elton John. A cutting mat will assist when cutting paper. Cher appeared at the event with Mary Bono, who accepted the award on behalf of her late husband. Knives and scalpels will fill a variety of tasks, including cutting board or scraping mistakes. Sonny and Cher also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television later in 1999. A light box allows an artist to trace his pencil work when inking, allowing for a looser finish.

The album was also nominated in four other categories, including Record of the Year, as well as being nominated for numerous other music awards. A drawing board gives a good angled surface to work from, with lamps supplying necessary lighting. Cher won her first Grammy Award in Feburary 1999 for Best Dance Recording for the song "Believe". Erasers, rulers, templates, set squares and a T-square assist in creating lines and shapes. She received rave reviews for the performance. Color can also be achieved through crayons, pastels or colored pencils. In January 1999, Cher performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of tens of millions around the world for Super Bowl XXXII. An artist might also choose to create his work in paints; either acrylics; gouache; poster paints; or watercolours.

Another single, "All or Nothing" (US #38, 1998), having cracked the Top 40, brought Cher’s total number of Top 40 hits to 23, not including those attained with Sonny. Mechanical tints can be employed to add gray tone to an image. The Believe album was eventually certified quadruple platinum, and is believed to have sold at least another 12 million copies worldwide. When inking, an artist may choose to use a variety of brushes, dip pens, a fountain pen or a variety of technical pens or markers. She also earned the distinction of being the only female artist to have had Top 10 hits in each of the past four successive decades. An artist will use a variety of pencils, paper, typically Bristol board, and a waterproof ink. This achievement made Cher the oldest woman (at 52) to have a #1 hit in the rock era, and also gave her the distinction of having the longest span of #1 hits (33 years) as well as the largest gap between #1’s (24 years). A cartoonist in this instance typically works alone, although again it is not unheard of for a cartoonist to use assistants.

It also became Cher’s fourth solo #1 single in US and fifth US #1 overall. Mort Walker is one such creator who employed a studio, whilst Bill Watterson was one such cartoonist who eschewed the studio method, preferring to create the strip himself. 1 in the charts for seven weeks and became the all-time biggest-selling single ever by a solo female artist in the UK. However it is not unusual for a cartoonist to employ the studio method, particularly when a strip become successful. In the United Kingdom, "Believe" stayed at No. A comic strip tends to be the work of a sole creator, usually termed a cartoonist. The first single and title track "Believe" (1998) quickly became a worldwide smash, easily becoming Cher’s biggest hit, reaching #1 in 23 countries around the world. Any number of people can assist in the creation of a comic book in this way, from a plotter, a breakdown artist, a penciller, an inker, a scripter, a letterer, and a colorist, with some roles being performed by the same person.

The album marked an extreme departure for Cher, as the record was a sparkling collection of up-tempo dance tracks, conjured up by a large and mixed team of lesser-known, mostly European producers. The editor will assemble a number of creators and oversee the work to publication. At the end of 1998, at age 52, a newly energized Cher released her much-hyped album Believe (1998), widely reported to be targeted towards her immense gay following. Through its use by the industry, the roles have become heavily codified, and the managing of the studio has become the company's responsibility, with an editor discharging the management duties. Despite charges of opportunism Cher continued to openly mourn, also paying tribute to Bono in the sentimental CBS special Sonny and Me: Cher Remembers (1998), calling her grief "something I never plan to get over". Within the comic book industry of the United States, the studio system has come to be the main method of creation. In front of millions, she praised the man who had been father, friend, partner, husband, and foe. However, works from independent companies, self-publishers or those of a more personal nature can be produced by as little as one creator.

The funeral, unbeknownst to Cher, was also broadcast live on CNN. The nature of the comics work being created determines the number of people who work upon its creation, with successful comic strips and comic books being produced through a studio system, in which an artist will assemble a team of assistants to help in the creation of the work. Nonetheless, under a slew of media attention, Cher accepted an invitation to deliver the eulogy. Even some professionally printed and bound booklets are referred to as minicomics, as long as they are published by the artist and marketed in minicomic venues, but this usage is controversial. Photograghed in tears as she fled through Heathrow Airport back to Los Angeles, the media seemingly appointed Cher his widow, though they had been apart for 24 years and he was long remarried, and then married again with a fourth wife and a new career as a popular congressman. By this loose definition, a single photocopied page folded in quarters would still be a minicomic, but so would a thicker digest-sized comic, or even a large, elaborate, and relatively expensive photocopied booklet with a silkscreened cover. He was 62. Currently, the term is used in a more general sense which emphasizes the handmade, informal aspect rather than the format.

Cher was in London in January of 1998 when a call from her daughter Chastity brought the shocking news of Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident. (The earliest and most popular comics in mini- and digest sizes—predating not only the term minicomic, but even the standard comic-book format—were the anonymous and pornographic Tijuana bibles of the 1920s.). She also co-starred and directed in one of the film’s three segments, earning a Golden Globe Nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a made-for-television movie. An early and unusually popular example of this minicomic format was Matt Feazell's Cynicalman, which began in 1980. Also in 1996, Cher co-executive-produced the highly-anticipated, slightly controversial HBO abortion drama If These Walls Could Talk (1996) with actress Demi Moore. These comics were generally photocopied, although some that were produced in larger quantities used offset printing. She starred in the poorly-received film Faithful (1996) with Ryan O'Neal and Chazz Palminteri. These sizes were convenient for artists using standard office supplies: a US letter page could be folded in half to make a digest, or in quarters for a minicomic.

This also marked the first time that Cher wrote the material for an entire album. Originally, it referred only to size: a digest comic measured 5.5 inches wide by 8.5 inches tall, while a minicomic was 5.5 inches by 4.25 inches. The album was quickly rejected by record labels for being "not commercial", so Cher chose to sell the recording exclusively through her website. The term was originally used in the United States and has a somewhat confusing history. This album was written entirely by Cher after she attended a songwriting retreat in France back in 1994. Minicomics are even less mainstream than alternative comics. She also produced and recorded an independent alternative-rock album entitled Not.Com.mercial (pronounced "not-dot-com-mercial"). A number of cartoonists have started this way and gone on to more traditional types of publishing, while other more established artists continue to produce minicomics on the side.

Though praised by critics as a departure from her Geffen-era style, it was mostly overlooked by her fans. These are a common inexpensive way for those who want to make their own comics on a very small budget, with mostly informal means of distribution. At age 50, she released the album It's a Man's World (1996). A minicomic is a small, creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. She was back full-time by 1996. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement. Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films Ready to Wear (1992) and The Player (1994). A storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help the directors and cinematographers visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur.

Many critics say this had a negative impact on her career. Storyboards are like illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film. She made very few public appearances during this period, with the notable exception she made to help her friend Lori Davis launch a hair-care line via a series of infomercials. The instructional comic is a strip designed for educative or informative purposes, notably the instructions upon an aeroplane's safety card. By 1992, at the age of 46, Cher took some time off, following what was widely reported as either a case of Epstein-Barr Virus or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Some webcomics have gained popular, critical, or commercial success. The film was a moderate success. Currently, there are thousands of webcomics available online.

Cher starred in the film Mermaids (1991) with Bob Hoskins, Wynona Ryder, and a then 9 year old Christina Ricci, making her film debut. Webcomics are similar to self-published print comics in that almost anyone can create their own webcomic and publish it on the Web. Cher embarked on the "Love Hurts Tour" throughout 1991 and into 1992. With the Internet's easy access to an audience, webcomics run the gamut from traditional comic strips to graphic novels and beyond. This album was also eventually certified platinum. Many webcomics are exclusively published online, while some are published in print but maintain a web archive for either commercial or artistic reasons. This album produced the Top 20 hit "Love and Understanding" (US #17, UK#6 1991) and 2 more Top 40 hits: a re-working of "The Shoop Shoop Song" (US #33, UK #1 1991) and "Save Up All Your Tears" (US #37, 1991). Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet.

In 1991, Cher completed her Geffen recording contract by releasing the album Love Hurts (1991). In American terminology, a graphic album is an anthology-format comic book with multiple stories that is published and distributed as a book rather than a periodical as distinguished from a graphic novel which has similar format but tells a single story. During this time, she starred in the television special Cher - Live at the Mirage, filmed during a live concert in Las Vegas. They contain either new stories or collections of previously serialised strips. She also launched "The Heart of Stone Tour" which played throughout 1989 and 1990 in various parts of the world. In Europe, a comic album is the equivalent to a graphic novel, being of A4 size and hardcover, typically with 48 pages. This album was eventually certified triple platinum. The comic annual is an annual publication predominantly specific to the United Kingdom.

In 1989, at 43, Cher released the album Heart of Stone, which featured three more Top 10 hits, "If I Could Turn Back Time" (US #3, 1989); "After All" (US #6, 1989), a duet with Peter Cetera; "Just Like Jesse James" (US #8, 1989); and the Top 20 hit "Heart of Stone" (#20, 1990). Graphic novels often encompass several separate issues of comic books and can be published over a period of several months or years and then republished in larger volumes. This album was eventualy certified platinum. It is often used to imply subjective distinctions in artistic quality between graphic novels and other kinds of comics which can be quite controversial. Cher (1987) was released in 1987, featured the Top 10 comeback single "I Found Someone" (US #10, 1987), which had previously been a minor hit for Laura Branigan, and the Top 20 hit "We All Sleep Alone" (US #14, 1988). However, the term is not strictly delimited, and can be notoriously difficult to pin down. Under a new recording contract with Geffen records, Cher released the first of three highly successful rock albums, under the executive production of Kalodner and featuring writing contributions from the likes of Diane Warren, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child, and Michael Bolton. Graphic novel is a term for a kind of comic book, usually with long and fairly complex storylines and often aimed at more mature audiences.

Also in 1987, at the age of 41, Cher, though somewhat reluctantly, revived her recording career after a five-year hiatus, under the suggestion and coordination of rock producer and A&R man John Kalodner. More recent established titles include 2000 AD and Viz. Dukakis also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Cher's mother in the film. Over the next century many different titles have been published, with The Dandy debuting in 1937 and the Beano in 1938. For Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, she won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy and the Favorite Film Actress award at the People’s Choice Awards. The British comic dates back to 1884, a year which saw the publication of Ally Sloper's Half Holiday. In 1987, she starred in three films: the thriller Suspect (1987), with Dennis Quaid; the fantasy film The Witches of Eastwick (1987), with Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer; and the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987) with Nicholas Cage and Olympia Dukakis. The primary format for first publication of Franco-Belgian comics, and also the format used in the United Kingdom, where it is commonly referred to as a "comic", plurally as "comics".

In 1985, Cher was honored with Harvard Univeristy's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award. The term "comics" in this context does not refer to comic strips (such as Peanuts or Dilbert). For her role of a mother of a severely disfigured boy, Cher won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, and in fact its dramatic seriousness varies widely. The film also starred Eric Stoltz, Laura Dern and Sam Elliott, and was considered her first critical and commercial success. Comic books are often called comics for short. Her next film was a starring role in the critically-acclaimed Mask (1985), directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The comic book is predominantly a United States term, with the term comic or comic magazine preferred in Europe.

For this film, she also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. Sunday strips are much larger and have always tended to be in color. She was next cast alongside Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell in the critically acclaimed drama Silkwood (1983) for which she received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. Daily strips usually run Monday through Saturday, and historically have been presented in black and white, although color is used more often since the early nineties. Her performance was critically praised, and she was later cast in the film version directed by famed Hollywood director Robert Altman. Newspaper comic strips come in two formats, daily strips and Sunday strips. In 1982, at 36, Cher landed her first major role in a Broadway production of Come Back to the Five-and-Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. In the United States the term "comics" is sometimes used to describe the page of a newspaper upon which comic strips are found, and through this usage has also grown to be used as a definition for comic strips.

At the time, Cher was also quoted as saying that she didn’t really care if she ever made another record. This usage is still fairly common in the United Kingdom. Her earliest entertainment ambitions had always lay in film, as opposed to music, however, she found herself in an uphill battle trying to land credible roles for a woman now in her mid-thirties with little acting experience. The term has currently become most commonly used when referring to the shortened newspaper comic strip, but historically the term was designed to apply to any strip, there being no upper limit on the length of a strip, the minimum length being two. With album sales and hit singles again at a standstill, Cher decided to expand her career into serious film acting. The comic strip, also known as a strip cartoon, is a sequence of images. Once again, album sales were underwhelming. Cartoons typically take one of three forms, that of the gag cartoon, the editorial cartoon or the political cartoon.

In 1982, Cher released the critically and commercially panned I Paralyze (1982), again despite appearances on American Bandstand and The Tonight Show. Although a singular image, it has been argued that since the cartoon both combines words with image and constructs a narrative, it merits inclusion as a form of comics. The album was a dismal failure, despite an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and 'the band' broke up the following year. Harvey, as a form of comics. In 1980, Cher, at age 34, formed the rock band Black Rose with her then-partner, guitarist Les Dudek, and released the album Black Rose (1980) by year's end. The cartoon, originally an artist's prepartory drawings, is considered by some scholars, notably R.C. That album produced no hit singles. Comics as an art form represents many different forms and publication formats, not all of which are physical.

For her second Casablanca release, Prisoner (1979), Cher took it all off on the album's cover, igniting a firestorm of controversy with women's rights groups for her "sex slave" image. For a fuller exploration of the language, please see Comics vocabulary. The album was partially boosted by the image of a scantily-clad Cher in a Viking outfit on the album’s cover. The layout of images on a page can be utilised by artists to convey the passage of time, to build suspense or to highlight action⁴⁸. Also in 1979, Cher went disco, signing with Casablanca Records, and scored yet another Top 10 hit with "Take Me Home" (US #8, 1979) from the the album Take Me Home (1979). The narration of a comic is set out through the layout of the images, and whilst there may be many people who work on one work, like films, there is one vision of the narrative which guides the work. She made a brief return to prime-time starring in the television specials Cher…Special in 1978 (for which guest-star Dolly Parton was nominated for an Emmy Award) and Cher…and Other Fantasies in 1979. In comics, creators transmit expression through arrangement and juxtaposition of either pictures alone, or word(s) and picture(s), to build a narrative.

Cher was then linked to a series of high-profile men, including record executive David Geffen, Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS, and guitarist Les Dudek. This means comics are not an illustrated version of standard literature, and whilst some critics argue that they are a hybrid form of art and literature, others contend comics are a new and separate art; an integrated whole, of words and images both, where the pictures do not just depict the story, but are part of the telling. The couple separated for good by 1978. Comics, as sequential art, emphasise the pictorial representation of a narrative. This project was not considered a critical or commercial success. The purpose of comics is certainly that of narration, and so that must be an important factor in defining the art form. Together, they also released the album, Two The Hard Way – Allman and Woman (1977), which featured a cover of the Smokey Robinson hit "You Really Got A Hold On Me". However, it is worth noting that both definitions are lacking, in that the first excludes any sequence of wordless images; and the second excludes single panel cartoons such as editorial cartoons.

They had one son, Elijah Blue Allman, born on 1976-07-10. As noted above, two distinct definitions have been used to define comics as an art form: the combination of both word and image; and the placement of images in sequential order. Cher, at 29, famously married rock musician Gregg Allman in 1975, (a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band). This allows the placement and grouping of artists by triangulation. Despite this, Stars is often said to be a fan favorite. He places the realistic representation in the bottom left corner, with iconic representation, or cartoony art, in the bottom right, and a third identifier, abstraction of image, at the apex of the triangle. Cher released the albums Stars (1975), I'd Rather Believe In You (1976), and Cherished (1977), though none of these albums were considered a critical or commercial success. Scott McCloud has created The Big Triangle⁴⁴ as a tool for thinking about comics art.

On 1976-02-01, The Sonny and Cher Show debuted to Top 10 ratings and high expectations, but was abruptly cancelled early in the following season due to poor ratings. Fiore has also expressed distaste with the terms realistic and cartoony, preferring the terms literal and freestyle, repectively.⁴³. Cher pulled the plug herself, before attempting to reunite with her ex-husband for a revamped version of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. Fiore has coined the phrase liberal. The Cher show ran for one and a half seasons, before ending in early 1976 due to a drastic drop in ratings. The basic styles have been identified as realistic and cartoony, with a huge middle ground for which R. This type of showmanship had never been done on television before. Whilst almost all comics art is in some sense abbreviated, and also whilst every artist who has produced comics work brings their own individual approach to bear, some broader art styles have been identified.

Her show would often consist of numerous costume changes. By many definitions (including McCloud's, above) the definition of comics extends to digital media such as webcomics. A lot of press was generated throughout 1975 about Cher's exposed bellybutton and barely there evening gowns and daring ensembles created by famed designer Bob Mackie. Some artists, Brian Bolland being a notable example⁴¹, are now using digital means to create artwork, with the published work being the first physical appearance of the artwork. Cloris Leachman and Jack Albertson both won Emmy Awards for their appearances as guest-stars a few weeks later. Artists will also make use of a lightbox when creating the final image in ink. The Cher show debuted as an elaborate, all-star television special - broadcast 1975-02-16 featuring Flip Wilson, Bette Midler and special guest Elton John. Comics artists will generally sketch a drawing in pencil before going over the drawing again in ink, using either a dip pen or a brush.

Bono’s show was abruptly cancelled, however, after only six weeks. In 2005 Robert Crumb's work was exhibited in galleries both sides of the Atlantic, and The Guardian newspaper devoted its tabloid supplement to a week long exploration of his work and idioms⁴⁰. Bono launched his own show, The Sonny Comedy Review in the fall of 1974 while Cher also announced plans to host and star in a new variety TV series of her own. In the 1980s comics scholarship started to blossom in the U.S.³⁹, and a resurgance in the popularity of comics was seen, with Alan Moore and Frank Miller producing notable superhero works and Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes being syndicated. What followed was a nasty and very public divorce. The term graphic novel was popularised in the late 1970s, having been coined at least two decades previous, to distance the material from this confusion³⁸. The show also therefore fell apart, while still at the top of the ratings. In the 1960s and 1970s, underground cartoonists used the spelling comix to distinguish their work from mainstream newspaper strips and juvenile comic books; ironically, although their work was written for an adult audience, it was usually comedic in nature as well, so the "comic" label was still appropriate³⁷.

By the third season of the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour in early 1974, the marriage of Sonny and Cher began to fall apart, and the duo separated later that year. The modern double usage of the term comic, as an adjective describing a genre, and a noun designating an entire medium, has been criticised as confusing and misleading. She released her first Greatest Hits (1974) album in 1974. The collecting of comics is today known by a separate term known as panelology. She followed up with the albums Foxy Lady (1972) and Bittersweet White Light (1973), before scoring two more #1 hits with "Half-Breed" (US #1, 1973, now a signature song), and "Dark Lady" (US #1, 1974) from the two albums of the same name. During the latter half of the 20th century comics have become a very popular item for collectors and from the 1970s comics publishers have actively encouraged collecting and shifted a large portion of comics publishing and production to appeal directly to the collector's community. Cher, at 25, continued to establish herself as a solo recording artist with the help of producer Snuff Garrett, and charted her first solo #1 hit with the song "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" (US #1, 1971), from the album Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves(1971). The lifting of a ban on non-propaganda publications, allowed Osamu Tezuka to re-energise both the content of manga and the style of its presentation Tezuka's first book work was an updating of Treasure Island, appropriately titled New Treasure Island (1947)³⁶.

The duo also revived their recording career, releasing the albums Sonny and Cher Live (1971), All I Ever Need Is You (1972), Live in Las Vegas (1972), and Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer – Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973), while charting two more Top 10 hits: "All I Ever Need Is You" (US #7, 1971) "A Cowboys' Work Is Never Done" (US #8, 1972) and the Top 40 hit "When You Say Love" (US #32, 1973). After World War II the form in Japan, known as manga started to modernise. The show received numerous Emmy Award nominations throughout its three year run on CBS. Also in 1938, Spirou first appeared in Belgium, starting the typical custom of weekly magazines featuring mostly Franco-Belgian comics. It returned to primetime later that year and was an immediate hit, quickly reaching the Top Ten in their time slot. In 1938 Action Comics #1 was published, featuring the first appearance of Superman and ushering in what is now referred to as the Golden Age of Comic Books³⁵. The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour debuted in 1971 as a summer replacement series. Techniques devised by Eisner whilst adapting the material for this new format include the "jump cut".³⁴.

Having caught the eye of CBS head of programming Fred Silverman while guest-hosting on The Merv Griffin Show, he offered the duo their own variety show. Will Eisner was one who supplied foreign material, and in his retooling of the material to fit the comic book format Eisner is credited with inventing the grammar of the comic book. A mixture of slapstick comedy, skits and live music, the show was a critical success, which led to numerous guest spots on other early 70’s hit television shows. By 1935 comic books were commissioning original material, mostly influenced by the pulp magazines of the day, whilst also repackaging foreign material³³. In 1970, Sonny and Cher starred in their first television special, The Sonny and Cher Nitty Gritty Hour. This led to Eastern publishing Famous Funnies in May 1934 for sale through the newsstands.³².
. On a hunch, Gaines distributed extra copies to newstands, with a ten cent cover price, returning to find them all sold.

That film (directed by first and only-time director Alessio De Paulo) was also considered a commercial failure. Gaines as an advertising giveaway, its success led to similar giveaways being published. The duo made another unsuccessful foray into film later in 1969 with Bono writing and producing the film Chastity, intended as a dramatic debut for Cher as an actress. C. Cher released the album 3614 Jackson Highway (1969 later in 1969. Wildenberg and Max. Sonny and Cher also welcomed their first child, Chastity Bono, born 1969-03-04. Published in 1933 by two workers for the Eastern Color Printing Company of New York, Harry L.

Their gentle, easy-listening pop sound and anti-drug policy had become unpopular in an era becoming increasingly consumed with the psychedelic rock that came with the overall evolutionary change in the landscape of American pop culture during the late 1960's. The first publication to use a format recognisable today as a comic book was Funnies on Parade which took the tabloid size used for the Sunday supplements and folded it in half. Sonny and Cher's career had stalled by 1968, as album sales quickly dryed up. Reputed to be the first four-color comic newsstand publication in the United States, it was published in tabloid size, a size which left it easily confused with the Sunday supplements of the time and so harmed sales to the extent that publication ceased after 36 issues. The film was a flop. Another notable publication of 1929 was The Funnies, a reprint collection of newspaper strips. In an attempt to capitalize on the duo’s success, Sonny penned their first feature film (themed similarily to The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine) Good Times in 1967, in which the duo starred. The strip was collected as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1930, being published in the European comic album format.³¹.

She followed up with "Where Do You Go" (US #25, 1965) "Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down!)" (US #2, 1966)the feature film title track "Alfie" (US #32, 1966) and "You Better Sit Down Kids" (US #9, 1967) from the albums The Sonny Side of Cher (1966), Cher (1966), Backstage (1967), With Love…Cher (1968). 1929 also saw the first appearance of Tintin published as a black and white strip in a supplement to Le Vingtième Siècle, a Belgian newspaper. Meanwhile, also in 1965, Cher released her first solo record All I Really Want To Do which charted her first solo US Top 20 hit, a cover of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do" (US #15, 1965). More strips followed, with the term "comic" quickly adopting through popular usage to refer to the form rather than the content²⁹, ³⁰. With her dark, exotic looks, she became a fashion trend-setter, quickly popularizing fashion bellbottoms, and incorporating ‘hippie’ attire and eccentric gowns and elaborate costumes into their live shows. In 1929, strips started to broaden their content, with Buck Rogers and Tarzan launching the action genre. While initially perceived as the slightly awkward and under-estimated half of the popular singing duo, Cher quickly rose to prominence as the more outspoken, daring and provocative half of the husband-and-wife singing team. came to define early newspaper strips, which initially featured humorous narratives , hence the adjective comic²⁸.

Sullivan infamously pronounced her name 'Chur' during their introduction. The term comics in the U.S. The duo made an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in the fall of 1965 in which Mr. This boom marks the beginning of comics as an ongoing popular art form²⁷. The two became a quick sensation, travelling and performing around the world. The Yellow Kid, the star of Hogan's Alley, became so popular as to drive newspaper sales, and in doing so prompted the creation of other strips. Several more Top 40 hits would follow, including "Baby, Don’t Go" (US #8, 1965), "Just You" (US #20, 1965), "But You're Mine" (US #15, 1965), "Little Man" (US #21, 1966), and "The Beat Goes On" (US #6, 1967) from the albums The Wonderous World of Sonny and Cher (1966), and In Case You’re In Love (1967). Outcault's single-panel cartoon series Hogan's Alley (1895) or Rudolph Dirks' multi-panel strip The Katzenjammer Kids (1897)²⁶.

Cher was 19 years old. Depending on the criteria used, the first successful comics series featuring regular characters was either R.F. This album contained the overnight smash and eventual #1 single "I Got You Babe" (US #1, 1965). They established the tradition of the British comic as being a periodical containing comic strips.²⁵. They later re-emerged as "Sonny and Cher", and released their first album Look at Us in the summer of 1965. These magazines also republished American material, previously published in newspapers in the U.S. They received little attention. In 1890 two more comic magazines debuted to the British public, Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips.

With Sonny continuing to write, arrange and produce the songs, Sonny and Cher’s first incarnation was as the duo "Ceasear and Cleo". Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, (1884), is published, and is reputed to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Both were released in 1964. It is around this time that Manhua, the Chinese form of comics, started to formalise, a process that lasted up until 1927.²⁴. Her second attempt was the more popular single "Dream Baby", released under the name Cherilyn, written and produced by Sonny. This strip is thought to be a significant fore-runner of the comic strip.²³. It went nowhere. In Germany in 1865 Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch was published within a newspaper.

Her first solo recording was the novelty single "Ringo, I Love You", released under the pseudonym of Bonnie-Jo Mason and produced by Phil Spector. Judge and Puck were popular²². The two became fast friends and eventually lovers, and through Sonny, Cher (as she was called early on for short) eventually got to sing back-up on several of Spector’s classic recordings. Similar magazines containing cartoons in continental Europe included Fliegende Blätter and Charivari, whilst in the U.S. The much older Sonny (he was 28) was already working for record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood. This usage became common parlance and has lasted into the present day²¹. Cherilyn first met Sonny Bono in a Los Angeles coffee shop in 1963, when she was just 17. In Britain, in 1841, Punch, a magazine containing such drawings launched.²⁰ In 1843 Punch referred to its 'humourous pencilings' as cartoons in satirical reference to Parliament, who were organising an exhibition of cartoons at the time.

. Satirical drawings in newspapers were popular through much of the 19th century. In a career defined, and redefined as much by dramatic missteps and spectacular recoveries, the chief constant has been her seemingly limitless determination. Sir Ernst Gombrich certainly felt Töpffer to have evolved a new pictorial language, that of an abbreviated art style, which worked by allowing the audience to fill in gaps with their own imagination¹⁹. From sequined spectacle to luminous Oscar-winner; TV vamp to Billboard's longest running chart-topper, Cher's success in music, film, television, and on stage qualifies her as one of the most enduring entertainers of our time. You make a book: good or bad, sober or silly, crazy or sound in sense."¹⁸. In a career that has now surpassed 40 years, Cher has emerged a legendary pop icon who continues to charm audiences around the globe, constantly on the public forefront. You do not merely pen a joke or put a refrain in couplets.

She rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as half of the pop duo Sonny and Cher, later emerging as a successful solo artist, television star, and later, film actress. You must actually invent some kind of play, where the parts are arranged by plan and form a satisfactory whole. She has sold solo over 100 million records worldwide since the start of her career. Nor is it simply to dramatize a proverb or illustrate a pun. She rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the duo Sonny and Cher and sold over 80 million records worldwide, then as a solo artist when the duo ended in 1974. In 1845 Töpffer formalised his thoughts on the picture story in his Essay on Physiognomics: "To construct a picture-story does not mean you must set yourself up as a master craftsman, to draw out every potential from your material —often down to the dregs! It does not mean you just devise caricatures with a pencil naturally frivolous. Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American actress and singer of Armenian descent. His work is reprinted throughout Europe and in the U.S., creating a market on both continents for similar works¹⁷.

VH-1's 25 Greatest Rock Star Cameos #2 (Vote ranking #1). Rodolphe Töpffer, a Francophone Swiss artist, is the key figure of the early part of the 19th century. VH-1/TV Guide's 100 Greatest Moments that Rocked TV #20; #59; #87 (Vote ranking #1; #2; #3). His work popularised the strip form as a pictorial narrative¹⁶. 2003 - USA Today Pop Candy's 100 People of the Year #19 (Vote ranking #1). An example of Rowlandson's work from 1782, satirising the politics of the day, shows it to be an early variation of the strip cartoon. TV Guide's 50 Sexiest Stars #13. Rowlandson and Gillray are credited with having codified the speech balloon in its present form¹⁵, from the previous convention of having speech represented by banners.

2004 - Top 10 Shortest Celebrity Marriages #3 (Vote ranking #1). Other notable artists producing work in this period are Thomas Rowlandson, Jan Vandergucht, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. 1987 - People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People #1. The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver by William Hogarth, (1726), is another early work that bears similarities of form, although Eddie Campbell has argued¹⁴ that these may be more a collection of cartoons rather than actual comics. 1975 - People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People #1. An early surviving work which is recognisable as being in the form of comics is Francis Barlow's A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot(c.1682)¹³. People Magazine Cover Champs # 11 (Vote ranking #1). ¹².

1976 - People Magazine Best Seller of the Year #1. Sabin prefers to cite the invention of the printing press as the moment when the form began to crystalise, arguing that the medium of comics has been intrinsically linked with printing, and thus whilst variations existed before, they are antecedents and can not be viewed as within the same tradition. 1975 - People Magazine Best Seller of the Year #1. However, Roger Sabin has argued that this view is an attempt to co-opt a history with which to somehow justify comics as an art form.¹¹. 2002 - Netscape's Top 10 Double Threats #1. Many authors and sources, Scott McCloud being the most recent, observe precedents in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Japanese emaki, European stained glass windows, pre-Columbian Central American manuscripts, and the Bayeux Tapestry.⁹, ¹⁰. 1992 - Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum's 5 Most Beautiful Women of History #2. When and where comics originated is another matter of debate, largely dependent on its definition.

1986 - Hollywood Square Celebrities [1966-82] #1. Some digital-media works combine the techniques of comics and animation as a hybrid form. 1986 - High Society's 30 Sexiest Celebrities #1. With comics, readers connect a series of static images at their own individual pace, usually with each in its own frame. 2004 - E!'s 101 Most Starlicious Makeovers # 3. Most agree that animation, which creates the optical illusion of movement within a static physical frame, is a separate form. 70´s - AAFRPS Ideal Face of the 1970's # 3. Campbell offered instead that "graphic storytelling is the art of using pictures in sequence and its attendant language of forms and techniques, refined over many centuries."⁸.

1977 - 10 Celebrities, Girls Want to Be #8. However, Eddie Campbell has rejected the expansion of the term comics to define the art form, defining as "humorous art...but with the proviso that in our own times it has come to embrace not only cartoons but comic strips and comic books which are not necessarily humorous due to their own evolutionary patterns, but they remain under this rubric as they evolved from it.". 2005 - Pollstar's Top Tours "North American" # 7. Harvey, in his essay Comedy At The Juncture Of Word And Image, offered a competing definition in reference to McCloud's: "...comics consist of pictorial narratives or expositions in which words (often lettered into the picture area within speech balloons) usually contribute to the meaning of the pictures and vice versa."⁷. 2004 - Pollstar's Top Tours "North American" # 17. R.C. 2003 - Pollstar's Top Tours "North American" # 3. By contrast, The Comics Journal's "100 Best Comics of the 20th Century"⁶, included the works of several single panel cartoonists and a caricaturist.

2002 - Pollstar's Top Tours "North American" # 2. In Understanding Comics (1993) Scott McCloud took Eisner's term sequential art, equated it with the medium of comics, and defined both thus: "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer"⁵; this definition excludes single-panel illustrations such as The Far Side, The Family Circus, and most political cartoons from the category, instead classifying those as cartoons. 1999 - Pollstar's Top Tours "North American" # 6. He differentiated between the medium of comics and the language employed within, which he preferred to name sequential art, defining it as "...the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea."³ In 1996, he published Graphic Storytelling, in which he finally defined comics as "the printed arrangement of art and balloons in sequence, particularly in comic books."⁴. 2000 - World Music Award - Lifelong Contribution to the Music Industry award. However, in this work Eisner chose not to define comics beyond utilising it as a term to refer to the comic strip and comic book formats collectively. 2004 - Women's World Award - one of the most successful actresses/singers. In 1985, Will Eisner published Comics and Sequential Art.

2001 - Bambi - most successful Female Singer in History. The term as reference to the medium has also been disputed. 1999 - Echo "German Grammy Award" - best International Female Singer. Scholars disagree on the definition of comics; some claim its printed format is crucial, some emphasize the interdependence of image and text, and others its sequential nature. 1991 - Echo "German Grammy Award" - best International Female Singer. Note: Although it takes the form of a plural noun, the common usage when referring to comics as a medium is to treat it as singular.. 1999 - Hollywood Walk of Fame - For TV - Sonny and Cher. .

1999 - Grammy - Best Dance Recording - Believe. However, today's form of comics (with panels, and using text within the image in speech balloons, etc.), as well as the term comics itself, originated in the late 19th century. 2003 - Emmy Award - Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special - Farewell Tour. Depending on the definition of the term, the origin of comics can be traced back to 15th century Europe or even as far as to Egyptian hieroglyphs. 1985 - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - Mask. In the first two forms the comics are secondary material usually confined to the entertainment sections, while the latter consist either entirely or primarily of comics. 1987 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Moonstruck. The most common forms of printed comics are comic strips (most commonly four panels long) in newspapers and magazines, and longer comic stories in comic books, graphic novels and comic albums.

1984 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - Silkwood. Originally used to illustrate caricatures and to entertain through the use of amusing and trivial stories, it has by now evolved into a literary medium with many subgenres. 1974 - Golden Globe Award - Best TV Actress - Musical/Comedy - Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. 1989 - Academy Award - Best Actress - Moonstruck. This style became the basis of the superhero comic book style, since Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel originally worked Superman up for publication as an adventure strip⁴⁷. Sonny & Cher - the Christmas Collection (DVD Release 2004). They required a less cartoony look, and used the illustrations found in pulp magazines as a basis⁴⁶.

Sonny & Cher - the Ultimate Collection (DVD Release 2003). The realistic style, also referred to as the adventure style is the one developed for use within the adventure strips of the 1930s. Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003) (also executive producer). Noted exponents of this style are Carl Barks, Will Eisner and Jeff Smith⁴⁵. VH1 Divas Las Vegas (2002). The cartoony style is one which utilises comic effects and a variation of line widths as a means of expression. Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (1999).

Cher (1975-1976). The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971-1974). The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour (1970). Good Times (DVD Release 2004).

Chastity (DVD Release 2004). Mask (DVD Release 2004). Faithful (DVD Release 2004). Stuck On You (DVD Release 2004).

Silkwood (DVD Release 2003). Suspect (DVD Release 2001). Mermaids (DVD Release 2001). Tea With Mussolini (DVD Release 1999).

Moonstruck (DVD Release 1998). The Witches of Eastwick (DVD Release 1997). The House (2007) (currently in pre-production). In the Pink (2007) (currently in pre-production).

Stuck On You (2003). Mayor of the Sunset Strip (documentary) (2003). Tea with Mussolini (1999). Faithful (1996).

Prêt-à-Porter (1994) (Cameo). The Player (1992) (Cameo). Mermaids (1990). Moonstruck (1987).

Suspect (1987). The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Mask (1985). Silkwood (1983).

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). Chastity (1969). Good Times (1967). Wild on the Beach (1965).

Cher: Live at the Mirage (Las Vegas, the "Heart of Stone" Tour 1990) (DVD Release 2005). The Very Best of Cher DVD Edition (DVD Release 2004). Cher: The Farewell Tour Live in Miami (DVD Release 2003). VH1 Divas Las Vegas (DVD Release 2002).

Cher: Live in Concert (Las Vegas, the "Believe" Tour 1999) (DVD Release 1999). VH1 Divas Live 99 (DVD Release 1999). 2003 - "When The Moneys Gone/Love One Another" US Maxi Single #2. 2002 - "A Different Kind of Love Song" US Maxi-Single #2.

2002 - "Song For The Lonely" Hot US #85; US Maxi-Single #1; US POP #7; Canada #18. 2002 - "Alive Again" Germany #27; Israel #8; Norway #32; Swiss #80. 2001 - "The Music's No Good Without You" Russia #1;UK #8 Top 10 Canada/Italy/Taiwan/Portugal; Top 20 Sweden/Norway/Europe/Finland. 1999 - "Dovè lAmore" UK #21; Top 10 Europe/Italy/Rumaenien/Finnland/Spain/Creeze.

1999 - "All or Nothing" US #38; UK/Europe 12; Top 10 Rumaenien/Finnland/Jogoslawien/Denmark; Norway #19. 1999 - "Strong Enough" US #57; Croatien/Denmark #1; Top 10 UK/Germany/France/Belgian/Swiss/Europe/Italy/Austria/Finland/New Zealand/Spain/Jogoslawien. 1998 - "Believe" US #1 (2x Platinum); UK #1 - in 24 countries #1, and over 30 countries Top 10. 1996 - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" UK #22.

1996 - "Not Enough Love In the World" UK #31. 1996 - "One By One" US #52; UK #7. 1995 - "Walking In Memphis" UK #11; Norway #7; Sweden #13; Austria #17; Germany #63. 1995 - "Love Can Build a Bridge" UK #1; Germany #62; Swiss #21; Austria #18.

1994 - "I Got You Babe" (Cher & Beavis And Butthead) US #108; UK #35; Dutch 9; Europe #18. 1993 - "Whenever Youre Near" UK #72. 1993 - "Many Rivers to Cross" UK #37. 1992 - "Oh No Not My Baby" UK #33; Germany #52; Austria #30; Swiss #19.

1992 - "Couldve Been You" UK #31; Germany #72. 1991 - "Love Hurts" UK #43; Norway #2. 1991 - "Save Up All Your Tears" US/UK #37; Austria #18; Germany #56. 1991 - "Love And Understanding" US #17; Top 10 UK/Dutch/Belgian/Norway/Austria; Germany #20; Top 30 France/Sweden/Australian.

1991 - "The Shoop Shoop Song" US #33; UK/Norway/Irish/Europe/Austria #1; Top 10 Germany/France/Sweden/Dutch/Belgian/Swiss/Australian. 1990 - "You Wouldn't Know Love" UK #27 (Gold). 1990 - "Heart Of Stone" US #20; UK #43; Germany #23. 1989 - "Just Like Jesse James" US #8 (Gold); UK #11; Germany #38; Belgian #13; Australian #22.

1989 - "If I Could Turn Back Time" US #3; Norway/Australian #1; Top 10 UK/US/Dutch/Belgian; Top 20 Germany/Sweden/Italy/Austria. 1989 - "After All" (duet with Peter Cetera) US #6 (Platinum). 1988 - "Skin Deep" US #78. 1988 - "We All Sleep Alone" US #14; UK #47; Norway #11.

1987 - "I Found Someone" US #10; UK #5 (Gold); Norway #14; Germany #35. 1981 - "Dead Ringer for Love" (Cher & Meatloaf) UK #5; Norway #26; Dutch #32. 1979 - "Hell on Wheels" US #59. 1979 - "Wasn't it Good" US #49.

1979 - "Take Me Home" US #8 (Gold); Norway #9. 1977 - "Pirate" US #93. 1974 - "I Saw a Man and He Danced with His Wife" US #42. 1974 - "Train of Thought" US #27, Canada #22.

1974 - "Dark Lady" US/Canada/Sweden #1 (Gold); Norway #10; Dutch #17; Belgian #22; Uk #36. 1973 - "Half-Breed" US/Canada #1 (Gold); Sweden #6; Norway #15; Germany #29. 1972 - "Don't Hide Your Love" US #46. 1972 - "Living in a House Divided" US #22.

1972 - "The Way Of Love" US #7; Canada #5. 1971 - "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" US/Canada #1 UK #4; Norway #8; Dutch/Germany #25; Belgian #27. 1969 - "For What it's Worth" US #125. 1968 - "The Click Song" US #84.

1967 - "You Better Sit Down Kids" US #9, Canada #7. 1967 - "Hey Joe" US #94. 1966 - "Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)" US #124; Canada #45. 1966 - "Behind the Door" US #97.

1966 - "Sunny" UK #32, Dutch/Norway #2; Sweden #4. 1966 - "I Feel Something In the Air" UK #43. 1966 - "Alfie" US #32; Canada #26. 1966 - "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" US #2; UK #3; Italy #6; Sweden/Canada/Belgian #9; Dutch #16; Germany #17.

1965 - "Where Do You Go?" US #25; Canada #22. 1965 - "All I Really Wanna Do" US/Dutch #15; UK #9; Sweden #13; Canada #26 (Cher's first #1 hit). 1993 - "I Got You Babe" (re-issue) UK #66. 1972 - "When You Say Love" US #32.

1972 - "A Cowboys' Work Is Never Done" US #8; Canada #4; Germany #48. 1971 - "All I Ever Need Is You" US #7; UK #7; Canada #10; Belgian #20. 1967 - "The Beat Goes On" US #6, UK #29; France #2; Belgian #5; Dutch #8; Canada #9; Germany #24. 1966 - "Living For You" US #87; UK #44.

1966 - "Little Man" US #21; France/Sweden/Belgian/Norway/Dutch #1; UK #4; Germany #2; Canada #6. 1966 - "Have I Stayed Too Long" US #49; UK #42. 1965 - "But You're Mine" US #15; UK #17; Canada #23. 1965 - "Just You/Sing C'est La Vie" US #20; Belgian #1; Canada #15.

1965 - "Baby Don't Go" US #8; Canada #1; Sweden #16; Dutch #20; UK #11. 1965 - "The Letter" US # 75; Canada #24. 1965 - "I Got You Babe" US/UK #1; Germany #3; Sweden/Canada/Dutch #4; France/Japan #5; Belgian #12. 1964 - "Love Is Strange" US #134.

Cher Gold (2005). 20th Century Masters Presents The Best of Cher Volume 2 (2004). The Very Best of Cher (2003). The Way of Love - The Cher Collection (2000).

20th Century Masters Presents The Best of Cher (2000). The Greatest Hits (1999) - Europe Only. If I Could Turn Back Time, Cher's Greatest Hits (1999). Greatest Hits (1974).

Cher Gold (2005-07-26). Live! The Farewell Tour (2003-08-26). The Very Best of Cher (2003-04-01). Living Proof (2002-02-26 USA) (2001-11-09 Europe).

not.com.mercial (2000). Believe (1998-11-10). It's a Man's World (1996 USA) (1995 Europe). Love Hurts (1991).

Heart of Stone (1989). Cher (1987). I Paralyze (1982). Black Rose (1980).

Take Me Home (1979). Prisoner (1979). Cherished (1977). Allman and Woman (1976) (w/ Gregg Allman).

I'd Rather Believe In You (1976). Stars (1975). Dark Lady (1974). Half Breed (1973).

Bittersweet White Light (1973). Foxy Lady (1972). Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves (1971). 3614 Jackson Highway (1969).

The Sonny Side of Cher (1966). All I Really Want to Do (1965). Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer - Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973). Live In Las Vegas Volume Two (1972).

All I Ever Need Is You (1972). Sonny & Cher Live (1971). In Case You're In Love (1967). The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher (1966).

Look at Us (1965).