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“I’m not kidding, this is my farewell tour,” promised pop icon Cher at a show in Edmonton earlier this week. “I swear to God. I’m never coming back and that’s it.”
It’s a promise the music biz veteran has made before, the last time in 2002 for Living Proof: The Farewell Tour; but this time, the 68-year-old really seems to mean it – and she’s certainly not going out with a whimper.
If you could turn back time, chances are Cher would still be playing on the radio when you got there.
Since her rise to superstardom in the ’60s as one half of Sonny & Cher, the legendary diva has enjoyed a 50-year reign over the world of pop, making her the only recording artist to have a No. 1 hit in each of the past six decades.
Between 2002-2005, she performed a record-breaking 325 concerts on her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, but despite the tour’s ominous title it was far from the end — in 2013 Cher released her 25th studio album Closer to the Truth, thrilling fans around the world with the announcement of the 2014 Dressed to Kill Tour.
Agencies/Canadajournal
