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more blond than you
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June 26, 1974: Cher divorced Sonny Bono after ten years of marriage. Four days later, Cher married guitarist Gregg Allman. The couple split ten days later, got back together, and broke up again. They stayed married for three years, producing Elijah Blue Allman.
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May 4, 1991: Cher scored her first solo UK Number 1 with a cover of Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song." Her first UK was "I Got You Babe" with Sonny in 1965.
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After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb, and blind.
On March 8, 1990, Cher won the worst dressed female and worst video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" in Rolling Stone Magazine's awards. She was on her way out.
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"The Way We Were" was the title track to the movie of the same name, which starred Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
"Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga is from her debut studio album, The Fame.
October 6, 1990: "Close to You" by Maxi Priest took over the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
Maxi Priest had come up through the London sound-system scene of the ’80s, singing over reggae instrumentals at parties and street fairs and youth clubs.
"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" is the theme song to the American drama film Hustle & Flow.
\May 4, 1999: Smash Mouth released "All Star" as the first single from their album Astro Lounge.
After the initial success of their debut single, "Walkin’ On The Sun," Smash Mouth returned to the studio to record the follow-up to 1997’s Fush You Mang at their new home on the major label Interscope.
Smash Mouth
March 23, 2002: The O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack takes bluegrass to Number 1 in America.
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi.
March 13, 2007: Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, is released in the US.
Back to Black came out of nowhere – in a sense. Of course, Amy Winehouse had already released her debut album, 2003’s Frank, but it could not prepare the listener for Back to Black.
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February 11, 2012: Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
Whitney Houston died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles at a Beverly Hilton hotel where a Grammy party was being held by Davis.
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December 25, 2016: George Michael died of heart failure, aged 53, in bed at his riverside home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Although he died in December 2016, it took a few months to complete the autopsy and investigation into George Michael’s sudden passing.
George Michael
November 6, 1971: Isaac Hayes' soundtrack from Shaft hits Number 1 on the Billboards album chart.
The blaxploitation movies of the ’70s are great, but they’re not, for the most part, good. These were cheap movies, made quickly. The editing was slapdash. The dialogue was hokey.
While it’s tempting to assume that Pour Some Sugar On Me was an instant smash hit, hard evidence shows otherwise.
