Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, August 1965

"I NEVER intended to be a singer," confessed Sonny, when I found him squatting on the stairs in the corridors of a BBC Theatre in ...

The Mad Mad World of Sonny And Cher!

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, 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 ...

Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, September 1965

DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...

Sonny & Cher: They've Got Each Other!

Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, October 1965

DISAPPEARING IN A flurry of furry jackets, shredded suits and bell-bottom trousers, Sonny and Cher left behind them no less than four hits in the ...

Sonny & Cher Get Even

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1965

SONNY struck back last week! When I phoned him at his home in Los Angeles recently, I got him out of bed at five o'clock ...

Sonny & Cher: They're Pop's Most Lovable Couple

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1966

IT'S THAT 'Little Man' again and bouncing back into the NME Chart this week at No. 18 comes popdom's most lovable couple, Mr. and Mrs. ...

Sonny & Cher

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1966

ACTION stations for Sonny and Cher. In a transatlantic phone call from his home in Encino, Sonny told me that their first film, Good Times, ...

Sonny and Cher: We're In Love, That's The Secret Of Success

Memoir by Keith Altham, NME, 1968

IT WAS ON July 31, 1965, that a stocky little man dressed after the fashion of an Eskimo bounced across the reception hall in London ...

Jefferson Airplane et al: Newport Pop Festival, Orange County Fairgrounds CA

Live Review by Ann Moses, NME, August 1968

NEWPORT FESTIVAL FAILURE ...

The Newport Pop Festival: Two Days of Surprises, Flowers, Cream Pies... and Super Sounds!

Live Review by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968

THE ONLY THING really wrong with the Newport Pop Festival held recently in Orange Country, Calif, was that it wasn't in Monterey. ...

Sonny & Cher: Live

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, February 1972

I'M SURE I'LL never understand why it's become so fashionable to belittle Sonny & Cher, to blame everything from the dissolution of the Beatles to ...

Sonny & Cher: The Two Of Us

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, November 1972

"Like Sonny Bono will never know what happened when it's all over. He'll never know why it happened, because he didn't know what happened to ...

Growing Up With Sonny & Cher

Retrospective by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1973

RECENTLY, THE SONNY & Cher Comedy Hour devoted a special show to what they called "The Sonny & Cher Years". ...