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Sonny and Cher: We're In Love, That's The Secret Of Success

Keith Altham, New Musical Express Annual, 1966

IT WAS ON July 31, 1965, that a stocky little man dressed after the fashion of an Eskimo bounced across the reception hall in London Airport, seized a ferocious-looking policeman by the hand and announced: "I'm Sonny Bono and this is my wife Cher – this is our first time in England and we've never met a London cop before – will you show me your club?"

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