Hello? And I want freedom.'" But Sonny & Cher kept up the façade for two more years, until Cher's new boyfriend, record executive David Geffen, got a copy of her contract, and she learned the ...

Cher was 16 when she met the 27-year-old record producer Sonny Bono. She was 18 when she married Bono — her first marriage, his second — and 19 when the couple released the smash 1965 single ...