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Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:50 am**

There's a ton of them out there, but this one caused be a couple of sleepless nights....

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:27 pm**

Yikes!!!!

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:39 pm**

...and to think that his son fronts an Irish rock band...

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:55 pm**

LMAO^

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:39 am**

He's dressed like the comic book version of Frankenstein that I used to see as a kid in the early 70's.

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:51 am**

Saw Sonny and Cher at the Pasadena Civic in the 60's..he was wearing that same ratty fur vest,,,Cher looked hot!

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:25 am**

Perhaps a little bit of hyperbole regarding the chart success too. I guess they may have had a few top 10 hits, but I don't think any of their songs rivaled "I Got You Babe."

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:01 am**

Frightening!

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:27 am**

Funny, I was surfing the tv last night and came across the "Top of The Pops" on VH-1 Classic they played a Sonny & Cher clip from 1965 "I Got You Babe" Cher looked great Sonny looked silly

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:52 pm**

That turned into their routine on their very popular TV show...he played the clown..she sang great and looked hot..they say he really knew his way around the recording studio though...their 1st 45 was done under the name Cesar and Cleo...

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:01 pm**

When Sonny passed away I read an obit that had quotes of reviews of their work back in the day. One of them called S&C "fake hippies."

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:05 pm**

yup... fake hippies nails it pretty well.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:33 pm**

They were derided back in the day for NOT taking drugs!

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:25 pm**

I dunno... there was just something a little creepy about it all.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:37 pm**

"Salvatore "Sonny" Bono was a former production assistant for Phil Spector, and Cherilyn LaPier had been a session singer. The pair met in the 60s while Cher was performing back-up vocals on The Ronettes' Be My Baby, and they made an appealingly odd couple in their tight striped bell bottom trousers and Afghan jackets. The image was exactly right for the time though, and when they crooned I Got You Babe into each other's eyes in 1965 they hogged the US and UK Number One spots for most of August."

Sonny may not have been a druggie, but he certainly was a drinker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IlMBdaEUNo

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