Cher will go back in time and tell her life story in a two-part memoir, because the music icon has a life “too immense for one book,” her publisher said.
The Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winner, who says she fought for more than 70 years to live her life on her terms, announced the release date of her latest project on Wednesday and promised that her next book will tell her true story “in intimate detail.”
“Cher: The Memoir, Part One” is set to hit bookstores Nov. 19. The “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer’s second volume will arrive in 2025, said Dey Street Books, an imprint of the William Morrow Group at HarperCollins Publishers.
Cher’s next book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” will be published on November 19.
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“As a dyslexic child who dreamed of being famous, Cher was raised in often chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors and a mother who inspired her despite her difficult relationship,” Dey Street Books said.
“With her trademark honesty and humor, 'Cher: The Memoir' chronicles how this diamond in the rough, with no plan and little confidence, became the trailblazing superstar the world couldn't ignore for more than half a century.”
The first installment will chronicle the “I Got You Babe” singer’s childhood and her meeting and marriage to her Sonny & Cher partner, Sonny Bono, the Palm Springs musician and congressman who died in a skiing accident in 1998. Cher, who was married to Bono from 1964 to 1975, will reveal the “extremely complicated relationship that made them world famous but ultimately tore them apart.”
The “Believe” singer, whose real name was Cherilyn Sarkisian, and Bono had a son, Chaz Bono, 55. She later had a son, Elijah Blue Allman, 48, with her second ex-husband, the late musician Greg Allman.
Her publisher said the memoir will also reveal the role of “the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother and the superstar.” The 78-year-old activist and philanthropist is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center honoree and the only woman to have topped the Billboard charts for seven consecutive decades.
In November 2023, the “Moonstruck” and “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” star joked on “The Tonight Show” that she “completely chickened out” and initially left out some details about her life in early drafts.
“But you have to put them into practice, so I have to go back and become a man,” he said, adding: “I've lived too much and done too much, so it's like I have to be the encyclopedia.”
