It’s hard to read, discombobulated, full of negativity, and it focuses entirely too much on her tabloid life.īego gives proper reverence to Cher in this rewrite of his earlier 80s biography. It’s basically a biographer who is unsympathetic and uninterested in his subject and trying to re-energize his project by shaking up the organization. So either you should get an orderly timeline of a biography or else a collection of essays reflecting on someone’s life and work. Usually, they are a product of their time or time forces their hand.

It goes a long way to explain why they do what they do. Because when people do something is almost as important as what they do. Quirk tries to shake things up by ordering the book by subject rather than by linear timeline. This biography earns the distinction of worst biography, in my humble opinion. Totally Uninhibited The Life and Wild Times of Cher This is a fascinating read every time I pick it up. Thankfully, Taraborrelli published an update, with added chapters up to Mermaids. This biography was first published in 1987 and only covered Cher’s life up to Mask. Covers the movies, the music, the love life - all with equal balance. Interviews important players, like Snuff Garrett. Bego compensates for this fact by publishing another biography of her in 2001 after her Believe tour. Too thin to adequately research her early career and published a little too early in that it just misses her phenomenal comeback of 1987.

Novice Cher fans might read these and wonder if she’d ever recorded a catalog of albums or if she simply had a string of hit singles and a TV show instead.Ī very light 80s biography, published circa Mask.

On the other hand, these biographies focus heavily on the tabloid aspects of her life and pass over the work. Carpozi’s book is the best with this detailed coverage, digging into the actual court documents. The Cher biographies of the mid 70s have some excellent coverage of the minutia surrounding her divorce from Sonny. Here are the books that are available to date. Considering her longevity, not many books have been written about Cher and she has yet to have written a meaty autobiography.

Cher by J. Randy Taraborrelli