Breaking the Band: Sonny & Cher – Now Streaming on REELZ+ - video Dailymotion

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They sang about love, lived it in front of millions, and then watched it fall apart. Breaking the Band: Sonny & Cheruncovers the personal heartbreak, career struggles, and public fallout of one of pop culture’s most iconic duos.  Stream it now on REELZ+ at https://www.reelzplus.com Available on Roku, Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.

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00:00On February 27, 1974, Cher sued for divorce from her husband, Sonny.

00:08She went to the press and said that it was involuntary servitude,

00:11you know, that she was a slave to Sonny.

00:15It was the end of one of the most famous partnerships in music,

00:18and nearly ten years since the duo had first released

00:21their international chart-topping single, I Got You Babe.

00:25They did I Got You Babe, bang, number one.

00:28Between them, they sold over 40 million records.

00:32They were just a unique couple.

00:35They were really magical on stage.

00:37They're an icon of pop music, one of the founders of pop culture.

00:42They'll go on forever.

00:44But in the end, they would be ripped apart by financial ruin.

00:47There was no money to go to the hospital in 1969 to have that baby.

00:52He paid with his wristwatch.

00:54Infidelity.

00:55Cher really felt publicly humiliated.

00:59And a demand for total control by one over the other.

01:03Sonny's idea about Cher was that she was a possession.

01:07He was a possession.

01:08He was a possession.

Breaking the Band: Sonny & Cher – Now Streaming on REELZ+

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