Cher: Part One: The Memoir – An Intimate and Extraordinary Story of a Trailblazing Icon Who Topped Billboard for Seven Decades (The Cher Memoir Book 1)

Cher tells her own story in this intimate memoir, the first of two parts, covering more than seventy years of her life lived on her own terms. Cher is the only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades. She has won an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Kennedy Center honoree. She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist. Raised in chaotic circumstances by a mother who inspired her despite their difficult relationship, Cher was a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous. With trademark honesty and humor, this memoir traces how she succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become a superstar. Part One follows her from childhood through meeting and marrying Sonny Bono, revealing the behind-the-scenes story of their complicated relationship that made them world-famous but eventually drove them apart. The memoir explores her rise through 1960s Hollywood, from Gold Star Studios to topping the charts, and presents the daughter, sister, wife, lover, mother, and superstar. Cher holds nothing back about her extraordinary beginnings and the making of a legend.