How did sonny and cher affect our lives today?
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Don't know.  For me, they provided part of the paycheck my daddy brought home. He worked as an artist in the Graphic Arts department at CBS Television City (in L.A.) from the early 50's until the late 80's.  In fact, the stage design for their opening and closing numbers, which had a black hand-drawn circular portrait of them both that repeated over the whole background, was my father's work. (He also designed the "drum" logo for the old Smother's Brother's Comedy Hour on CBS, among other things.)\n\nI don't see them as any great cultural icons...although the short dumb guy, tall smart girl thing looked good on them, don't you think?
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There are innumberable impacts. \nSOME ARE POSITIVE AND SOME NEGATIVE.\n\nOur education system, communication system, transposrtation, and many other social institutions have largly improved.\n\nMedia (print, elctronic) have changed working of our social groups particularly the NGOs.\n\nHuman values have been grately damadged. \n\nIndustrializtion has made the men short of time so relationships have becomes burden.\n\nElectronic media and IT have made the men indifferent from follow beings.\n\nFinancial institutions, particularly the leazing mechanary has made the men slave, indirectly to the financial loans.\n\nMen has lost cultural values of ethics.\n\nEveryday life has become fast, independent and easy but too busy and mechanical.\n\nHealth care has greatly increased and so life expectancy.
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Good grief, cherish it!!  Don't worry about what might or might not happen!  I think in this stressful, sometimes negative world we dwell too much on the bad days! Good ones happen too!  Tonight, write down why today was so great.  Then next time you have a bad one, look at what you wrote down and remember it with affection!  Life isn't so bad!
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How can you compare someone who was one of the first to push the line of sex appeal in rock and roll with the forefathers of the modern rock and roll band?  They arent famous for the same reasons.
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Cher\nAKA Cherilyn Sarkasian\n\nBorn: 20-May-1946\nBirthplace: El Centro, CA\n\n\nGender: Female\nEthnicity: White\nSexual orientation: Bisexual\nOccupation: Singer, Actor\n\nNationality: United States\nExecutive summary: Plastic surgery diva\n\nCher dropped out of high school and at age 16 she had her first brush with stardom when she was involved in a minor fender-bender with Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty. Beatty seduced her, which Cher remembers as "a disappointment." At 17 she wandered into a Los Angeles coffee shop and saw a goofy-looking 28-year-old man at a table. When their eyes met, Cher has said, "It was as if the whole room went to soft focus, like Tony and Maria at the dance." The man was Sonny Bono, then a menial worker in the recording industry and a part-time percussionist. They moved in together almost immediately, but the initial arrangement was strictly platonic, with Cher trading maid services for rent. It was weeks or months later before Bono felt for her what she had felt in that first instant. \n\nBono was impressed by Cher's singing ability, and introduced Cher to his boss, Phil Spector. But Cher was very nervous, and when she sang for Spector her voice was unsure and he was unimpressed. She felt more comfortable when Bono accompanied her, and although he could barely carry a tune, their sweet, almost innocent chemistry somehow made the music work. They performed as Caeser and Cleo, and had some success at small night clubs. When Bono wrote "I Got You Babe", it became their first hit and an enduring standard. \n\nAs Sonny & Cher, they had numerous hits in the mid-1960s, but their success waned as "acid rock" and hippie music took over the charts. Bono then used some of their accumulated earnings to finance two films -- Good Times, a musical comedy starring Sonny & Cher, and directed by William Friedkin, and Chastity, with Cher sans Bono turning in a decent dramatic performance as a tough but vulnerable wanderer. Bono wrote the screenplay and score and produced the film. Both movies were well-made and are still entertaining, but both flopped at the box office, and Sonny & Cher were considered passé. \n\nThe duo continued performing together, in smaller venues. Cher wanted to change their sound, but Bono would not allow it. In performances, she sometimes vented her frustrations by insulting him on stage. Both performers noticed that audiences laughed; soon these jabs at Bono became a part of their act, which began getting renewed notice and drawing larger audiences. They were eventually booked in Las Vegas to great success, and then were invited to bring their schtick and song act to television. \n\nThe Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour was a popular success, fueled by her zingers aimed at Bono, but tempered by what seemed to be genuine love as they ended each show with "I Got You Babe." Their old albums began selling again, and Cher recorded some new hits without Bono. With her increasingly outrageous Bob Mackie-designed costumes and musical success, Cher's star had far eclipsed Bono's, and she grew impatient with his Svengali-like control of her career. When she had friend, sometime lover, and future Hollywood mogul David Geffen look at her contract, she learned that her career was virtually owned by Bono. Cher filed for divorce in 1974. Bono went on to star in The Sonny Comedy Revue, and Cher starred in a variety show dubbed simply Cher. She admitted that she was terrified to be on television alone, but her show lasted two seasons while Bono's lasted only 13 weeks. They then re-united, at her request, for a new Sonny and Cher Show, with singing and comedy but no pretense of love. \n\nThe show was cancelled in 1977, but Cher -- then married to Gregg Allman -- continued touring with Bono until 1979. After that, she performed solo, or with her own band, or in duets with other singers. She re-emerged in movies with Robert Altman's Come Back
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Cher is a famous singer you moron!!!!!where have you been the last 40 years?Mars?
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Yes many people have been affected by this. Hope this answer helps
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It is true that all actions have far reaching after affects that we cannot begin to understand.  The tracks that we leave in the lives and futures of others are impossible to trace, but they also can make the hugest difference in the lives of those they encounter.\n\nI don't think it is possible to even begin to understand the impact  decisions made today will have on tomorrow.
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believe that we have degraded since the 50"s and early 60"s. think that is the last time America stood together on life issues. there was not family fall out like now. think people tried to do what was right even when it was hard. man tried to provide and make households survive while woman were trying to be thee best to be a mother not 100 different things and then a mother. (no way intended as a slam meaning trying to be a worker teacher home maker taxi driver sister daughter wife then mother is very hard. and not far back in the 50S most woman stayed at home and had the ability to be th mother they dreamed of. ) we treated our kids different as the future not as a necessity or interruption.
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Cher sang the song believe
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Yes I agree. You are spot on and it just goes to show how much influence the government and media have over us. The rubbish they printed in papers and showed on the t.v has been enough to still influence our way of seeing hippies even for people nowadays that aren't old to remember the 60s/70s. Look at the punks, people were terrified of me when I was a teenager in 1979 and I've never hurt anyone in my life! People believed what they read in the papers.
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Yes sweetie I know what you mean . There are \nsome people who have a big impact on our lives .
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our country hasn't changed any morels or values...they have "lost" them..and as long as they are lost our generation and the ones to follow will only continue to see the side effects...children killing parents, parents killing children, child pron, disrespect, and the list goes on.....in todays sociaty either everything is considered "ok"..and if not then they label it with a diease and then it's still "ok"......
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This is driving me mad. The singer is Cher. I can't for the life of me think of the title though!
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I wasn't gonna answer this question, but the more I thought about it, I figured I may as well.  I think the 80s were.  Well.. no... maybe the 60s.  AW HELL I don't like this question.  I say the 60s for breaking down the racial wall.  (Not that they were fun times, at all, but the strength of those fighting was amazing and did wonders for society today).  But in the 80s we realized that we are a united country that can fight for hunger and sickness. Remember when AIDS came out?? Suddenly musicians took a stand to do more with their money than spend it on parachute pants and cases of hairspray. It was a time when the nation came together with Hands Across America and Live Aid, etc etc etc.  Kids in my school started focusing on world news, instead of highschool ball scores. We had presidents shot at, a Beatle was murdered, space shuttles exploded, Russia toke their finger off the button, gays and lesbians were coming out all over the place and fighting for their equallity.  Microwaves became a household product. Didn't viagra hit the market in the late 80s? lol  It was a year of eye opening things. Maybe not a technological boom, as much as a psychological boom.  Shrinks were less shunned upon. Divorces were no longer taboo. Massive hurricanes hit the coast, and I personally saw neighborhoods becoming one family- taking care of each other like none before.  Limits were being put on music and euthanasia issues hit the scene when a girl named Teri Shaivo was in coma, and her parents wanted to keep her alive, while her husband wanted to pull the plug.  Walls fell in Germany. The 80s really influenced the way I saw the world.  It seemed almost like the decade pulled many countries closer together so our people and their people could hug. I'm not sure what happened in the 90s, and I'm not so sure the 2000-2010 decade will be much better.
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They were so desperately needed at the time.  I was very young the first time I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show.  They were rebels-long hair and rock & roll.  They were overwhelming-they blasted the USA and we loved 'em for everything they were and everything they were going to be.  Even when they dived into the drug world they still had very real and very serious things to say that no one else would.  They were and remain the best without peers.
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Cher married Greg Allman Of The Allman Brothers Band in 1975 and in 1976 they had a son they named Elijah Blue Allman. They divorced in 1979 and Cher has remained unmarried since.