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Close-up of Cher with voluminous black hair.

A black-and-white photo of Cher performing on stage.

Black-and-white image of Cher Bono holding her daughter, Chastity. Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, is to the right.



Abandoned by Cher's father, Armenian hustler Johnnie Sarkisian, Cher's mother Georgia Pelham scraped by as a singer, waitress and occasional bit player on the periphery of 40s and 50s Hollywood — where she was replaced for a role in The Asphalt Jungle by a young actress named Marilyn Monroe.

A black-and-white photo of Cher and Sonny Bono with their daughter Chasitity.

Colour photo of Cher and Sonny Bono with their daughter Chastity.

Cher and Sonny Bono singing onstage during an episode of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.

A black-and-white image of Phil Spector wearing diamond-shaped sunglasses.

Black-and-white image of a smiling Tina Turner hugging a smiling Cher from behind.

Sonny Bono sits at a piano while smoking a cigarette and looking at Cher who is standing.

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