Happy 79th birthday to the phenomenal Cher!

Let’s face it, there has never been anybody else like Cher. And there never will be.

At 79, thank God, she’s still going strong. The second volume of her memoir (from early 80s – present) is due out in the fall and she’s working on a new album.

This is her first birthday as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – a long overdue honor finally made right last year. The credibility of the Hall was damaged each year that Cher was not in it because she is one lf the biggest and most important artists in the history of music – a constant fixture for SIXTY years now.

She is a forever star who has been a part of our lives since the 1960s when she reached the top of the pop charts with I Got You Babe, The Beat Goes On, Baby Don’t Go, All I Ever Need Is You, A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done and other hits as one-half of Sonny and Cher. She also simultaneously launched a solo recording career with the 1960s hits Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), All I Really Want To Do and You Better Sit Down Kids.

Then came television variety show stardom with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour followed by her dazzling solo TV show titled Cher than re-teaming with Sonny Bono for a second variety show that ran for a few years before ending in 1977. Cher a string of solo hits before splitting from Sonny that included Half Breed, The Way of Love, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves and Dark Lady then after she hit the the top of the charts with Take Me Home.

Cher re-emerged in the early 1980s as an actress who quickly became an Oscar-winning movie star for Moonstruck. She also starred in Mask, Silkwood, Suspect, Mermaids and Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. At the same time her recording career caught fire again with such hits as Believe, I Found Someone, If I Could Turn Back Time, Just Like Jesse James, All or Nothing, Save Up All Your Tears, Heart of Stone, Strong Enough, Song For the Lonely, After All, We All Sleep Alone, among others.

Cher then began to disappear for stretches but she resurfaces just enough with top hits (Woman’s World, You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me), the occasional movie (Burlesque, Mamma Mia 2) and new albums (Closer to the Truth, Dancing Queen) which both debuted at number three on the Billboard chart.

Best of all, Cher is still performing live and can still sell out the biggest arenas and stadiums and has a boyfriend about 40 years younger than her.

It was so wonderful to see Cher receive the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018 which was so well-deserved. She has had a number one single in seven different decades with DJ Play A Christmas Song hitting the top in December 2023.

Long live Cher!