Cher Concert Program 2002 Living Proof Farewell Tour 12” X 16” Good Condition. Comes from a pet free smoke-free home and has been kept in storage in a climate controlled moisture free environment for decades.
This is a very cool highly illustrated large program with many pages going through not only the concert but Cher’s history. I only found very small blemishes one of them on the front cover there’s just a very mild blemish kind of crease near the binding and on the back cover in the same place there’s a couple of small creases near the binding but these are not highly noticeable and don’t affect the book in any way. I try to take a few pictures of the first several pages of the book And all the pages are as magnificent or better than the pictures I took. All together there are 40 pages within this book. Please see pictures for full details.
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Let us not ramble through the usual Cher litany here: the chart-topping records
the hit TV series, the acclaimed acting career, the Academy Award*, the endless
covers of every magazine from Ms. and Cosmopolitan to Time and Newsweek and
Vanity Fair. No. let us instead contemplate this extraordinary woman's ongoing
status as an empress of popular culture, the incarnation of so many millions of
people's dreams and aspirations.
But we'll get to that. Right now, for those who may have been chained in a cave
for the last five decades, here's the overview:
It's the dawn of the Sixties. Shy, winsome teen Cherilyn LaPierre meets L.A.
songwriter Sonny Bono, an associate of legendary record producer Phil Spector.
Soon. Cher is singing backup on some of Spector's most indelible classics: the
Crystals "Da Doo Ron Ron." the Ronettes' epochal "Be My Baby." the Righteous
Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'."
the still-revered Yuletide album.
"A Christmas Gift for You." (Cher's voice is so powerful, even at this youthful
point, that she continually finds herself being shunted farther and farther back
from the microphone.)
Sonny and Cher become….. well, Sonny and Cher, scoring soundtrack of the
Sixties hits like "Baby Don't Go." "The Beat Goes On." and the number-one
smash. "I Got You Babe." (Many years later, the good-humored Cher will duet
on this last tune with MTV's snotty cartoon duo. Beavis and Butt-head.) She
also notches up solo hits: the unprecedented at the time divorce lament "You
Better Sit Down. Kids." the million-selling "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me
Down)." (the latter later covered by Frank Sinatra!).
In the Seventies, she charts three number-ones on her own: "Gypsies. Tramps
and Thieves.'
"Half- Breed." "Dark Lady." Sonny and Cher launch a wise-cracking
TV show. The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. Bob Mackie does Cher's way-over-
the-top costumes: regulars include the young Steve Martin and Terri Carr. guests
range from the Jackson Five to Ronald Reagan. The show is a big 1971-74 hit.
Cher does Broadway in Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean.
and then signs up for director Robert Altman's film version of the play. She
makes her big breakthrough in Mike Nichols' 1983 nuke-scare thriller Silkwood
(for which she's nominated for an Academy Award). Following the similarly
acelaimed Mask (Bet Actress award. Cannes Film Festival), she finally wins
An Oscar in 1087 for her ultra-lovable performance in the great romantic comed-
Moonstruck, She jousts with Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick and stars
as a footloose mom in the 1990 comedy Mennaids (which spins off another
hit single, a cover of the old Betty Everett tune, "The Shoop Shoop Song*).
Throughout this period, she's also racking up a series of rock hits: "I Found
Someone." "We All Sleep Alone.'
and the shout along anthem Il
Could Turn back Time.'
By 1091, Cher is - whew?- exhausted. She gears down for a side-trip
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work-out videos and infomercials, and in 1904 launches
Sanctuary, a line of Gothic-styled home furnishings. People
poke fun
But Archilectural Digest is so impressed with her
swank refurbishing of two homes in Miami and Aspen
that
the usually snooty magazine leatures them in
two separate issue.
an aPPreCIaTIOn b, KEATLODEA
Refreshed and reinvigorated. Cher debuts as a director in 1996, with the hit HBO
drama If These Walls Could Talk - the highest-rated original movie in HBO histo-
Ty. In 1998, she unleashes the biggest-selling album of her career, the interna
tional number-one smash Believe. (The title track tops the charts in 21 countries.
including 4 weeks at number one in the US.)
In 1999, there's an elegant "succes d'estime" with the Franco Zeffirelli film. Tea
with Mussolini, in which Cher more than holds her own alongside such theatrical
"grandes dames" as Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, and Maggie Smith.
How are we to process all of this - this, shall we say. towering cornucopia of creative
endeavor? And what are we to make of the beautiful, unstoppable high-school drop-
out at the center of it all?
I think it's clear by now that Cher's wildly idiosyncratic career resonates so deeply
with her millions of admirers around the world - more deeply than many other
icons of our time - because it so vividly illustrates the power of belief: belief in
one's own dreams and most cherished desires. Cher's unending embrace of life's
possibilities, even in the face of critical condescension and occasional indifference.
has been…well, inspiring.
People laughed at Sonny and Cher, with their weird fur vests and sometimes squeaky
harmonies. (Sonny even released a Top-1o solo single in 1965 called "Laugh at Me.)
But the laughter faded as their hits piled up.
Some looked askance at The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour - who was this dead-pan
exotic stepping into the perky, white-bread waste-land of American TV? But Cher
was funny in a new way, and enormously appealing to an audience starved for straight
shooting wit and unabashed glamour - which Cher. of course, had in distinctive
abundance. And she prevailed.
There was much critical wincing when she launched a movie career t00 - was she
kidding, or what? But her talent and intuitive skill (where did it come from?) were
undeniable, and the critics soon found themselves dining on their detractions
The hurdles seemed never to stop. Fashion arbiters sniped at her skin-baring.
leather-laced late-Eighties hard- rock persona- but again, more hits. (And m any
event, Cher's flamboyant sense of style has always transcended the mainstream
fashion dictates of any particular era.) There was also much groaning when she
suddenly side-tracked into the world of infomercials - huckster-ism! But everybedy
takes a wrong turn occasionally. as we all well know. The important thing - and her
audience applauded this - was that she weathered the opprobrium and stood ngh
back up and moved on
The most attractive aspect of Cher's long and always surprising career: I think has
been her utter lack of naked show-biz ambition - that desperate. grasping hunger
for continued acclaim that inevitably makes so many lesser stars seem so paelie
Cher has always set herself out there. Sphint-like and imperturbable, doing whatcret
she may want at any given time: the world, she seems to figure, can take it or lease
it. Need I reiterate the world's many decisions in this regard?
And now here she is, with another hit album in band hack on tour again. One last um
Is this one of those David Bowie/Elton lohn "farewells
- a sly bowing-out in antic
pation of the money- minting comeback" that must surely follow just a sbort war
down the road? Cher says no. And while she also says that she really is happieat!
unstage, in front of an audience. I think anvone who's ever experienced the lone,
blog of large-scale touring - the blur of surcessive cities, the procession of disa
hotel rooms - can understand why she's probably serious about calling it quaile
But is this the last we'll see of Cher? Our final glimpse of this inimitable figue
director? Will she soon be fading from view? Can this really be goodbye
YOU°TE KIDDING TIGHT?