The Mad Mad World of Sonny And Cher!
Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, 4 September 1965
SONNY and Cher had just arrived in their manager's office in Los Angeles. It was 2.30 p.m. and they had bounced happily back from a date in the East – where they had escaped from 5,000 frenzied fans by sitting in the middle of a nearby river in a handy motorboat.
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