Were it not for a simple piece of advice from Mick Jagger, the world might never have heard of Cher. And who would want to live in a world without Cher?
Speaking recently to US broadcasting legend Howard Stern, Cher recalled how The Rolling Stones frontman advised her and partner Sonny Bono to move to England to be discovered - "We'd just made I Got You Babe, but no-one had heard it" she revealed - but were turned away from a Hilton hotel by a snobbish male receptionist who lied to their faces about no room ever having been booked in their name.
Cher picks up the story in her recently published autobiography, Cher: The Memoir, Part One.
"As far as I was concerned, no one in England even knew what Sonny and Cher was," she writes, "but by the time we reached the Hilton's revolving doors, escorted in person by the manager, there were two reporters standing outside.
