I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

In recognition of her achievements, Cher was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2024, the first volume of her critically acclaimed memoir was published a month later, and now there’s this lavishly illustrated celebration of her life and career. Covering every period of Cher’s career in a succinct and engaging way, Zaleski (We Found Love, Song by Song) also details smaller stories and anecdotes that may surprise some of her fans. She examines Cher’s early days on The Sonny and Cher Show; the highs and lows of her personal life throughout the 1970s; her resurgence in the 1980s with roles in the films Silkwood, Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, and Moonstruck; her charity work; her position as a fashion icon; and her chart-topping 1998 album, Believe, which brought her even greater musical success and widened her fan base. Not to be left out is her “Cherlato” food truck selling gelato in Los Angeles, her spearheading the rescue of Kaavan the elephant from a zoo in Pakistan, and the seven decades in which she’s had a number-one hit single.