{"id":31125,"date":"2024-12-31T00:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-year-in-music-2024-cher-finally-gets-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:02:28","slug":"the-year-in-music-2024-cher-finally-gets-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-year-in-music-2024-cher-finally-gets-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Music 2024: Cher finally gets into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-30\/ABC_Audio_TheYearInMusic_2024_v02_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In late 2023, <strong>Cher<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1D-5JMYRCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">said on <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Kelly Clarkson Show <\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">that she didn&#8217;t understand why she hadn&#8217;t been inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame yet. Having been eligible since 1990, she\u00a0contended that at that point she wouldn&#8217;t be\u00a0interested in being in it\u00a0&#8220;if they gave me a million dollars.\u201d But before another year had gone by, she was a newly minted Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame inductee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Cleveland in October, Cher was inducted into the Hall by <strong>Zendaya<\/strong>, who said of the ageless entertainer, &#8220;She does it all and, might I add, really, really f****** well.\u201d She and <strong>Dua Lipa<\/strong> teamed up for a duet of &#8220;Believe,&#8221; and then she sang &#8220;If I Could Turn Back Time&#8221; solo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In her speech, Cher cracked, &#8220;It was easier getting divorced from two men than getting into the RRHOF.&#8221; But, she noted, &#8220;The one that thing I have never done is I never give up.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can watch Cher&#8217;s induction and performance Jan. 1\u00a0 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">2024 Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">special, featuring highlights of the October ceremony. It&#8217;ll also be available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also in October, Cher headlined the first <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> since 2018, singing &#8220;Strong Enough&#8221; and &#8220;Believe.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In November, Cher debuted her long-awaited autobiography,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Cher: The Memoir \u2014 Part One,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> which covers her childhood through the start of her acting career. It was chock-full of tales of her outrageous life: her difficult childhood; her ups and downs with men, including her two late ex-husbands,\u00a0<strong>Sonny Bono<\/strong> and<strong> Gregg Allman<\/strong>;\u00a0and, of course, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1UEXfRTUtGQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">her music career<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. It allowed Cher to add &#8220;<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New York Times<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">bestselling author<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">&#8221; to her extensive resume;<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> Part Two<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0is due in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also in 2024, Cher, 78, continued her relationship with music producer <strong>Alexander &#8220;AE&#8221; Edwards<\/strong>, who&#8217;s 38. The two have been linked since 2022 and she&#8217;s working with him on a new album, which she\u00a0said\u00a0during her book tour in November would &#8220;probably be my last.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2023, Cher said on The Kelly Clarkson Show that she didn&#8217;t understand why she hadn&#8217;t been inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame yet. Having been eligible since 1990, she\u00a0contended that at that point she wouldn&#8217;t be\u00a0interested in being in it\u00a0&#8220;if they gave me a million<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-year-in-music-2024-cher-finally-gets-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}