Cher talked to Vanity Fair recently and among many other topics, she discussed her disbelief that she and Sonny Bono aren’t in the Rock Hall yet.
Cher tells Vanity Fair West Coast editor Krista Smith that she can’t believe “Sonny and I still aren’t in the [Rock and Roll] Hall of Fame, and it just seems kind of rude. Sonny was a good writer, and we started something that no one else was doing. We were weird hippies before there was a name for it, when the Beatles were wearing sweet little haircuts and round-collared suits…. We influenced a generation, and it’s like: What more do you want?”
We’re no experts by any stretch of the imagination, so we checked in with Michael Gallucci, Scene’s music editor, for his thoughts on Cher’s beef with the Hall. Here’s what he had to say:
“I Got You Babe” is a great song, but nobody — not even Cher’s super-gay fans — can name another song they did. Sonny wanted to be Bob Dylan, and Cher wanted to be the woman married to Bob Dylan or Gregg Allman or whoever would have her. They don’t stand a chance of getting in the Rock Hall. They’re way too insignificant.
So there you go. Sorry, Cher.
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2010.
Boy how rude of you Michael Gallucci Sonny and Cher were a big part of the entertainment business. I think they have a right to be in the Rock Hall they were music icons in the day. You do not have to be so rude you Jack A$$.
HA, Michael Gallucci, your a Bob Dylan Worshiping Time magazine music reviewer wannabe
Cher is the only female solo artist to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in each of the previous four decades.
She holds the Hot 100 record for the longest hit-making career span, with 33 years between the release of her first and most recent #1 singles, in 1965 and 1999. Cher ended her 3-year-long “Farewell Tour” in 2005 as the most successful tour by a female solo artist of all time.
With a career lasting over 45 years, Cher has sold over 100 million albums and 70 million singles worldwide.
Jus’ Sayin
Cher, at least, should definitely be in the Rock Hall. What is their criteria?
I agree with BG on November 16, 2010. I am currently putting together a song list of music that left an impression with you, or made you want to be a singer like them and Cher is the first artist that I thought of. I used to watch the Sonny and Cher show when I was little and loved “I Got You Babe”, “Gypseys, Tramps and Thieves”, “Half-Breed”, and in later years, “If I Could Turn Back Time”, “Believe” and so many others. I love being a woman and being able to rock out to songs that that make you thankful for being a girl. I can even understand why someone who isn’t one, would still like to look and sing like she has. On behalf of all of us who imagined what it might feel like to do what she did. Who do we have to talk to in order to get her into the Rock Hall of Fame? Please give me someone with a brain, Michael Galluci sounds like a mysoginistic pig.