"I'm not going to go into all the information, I'm simply going to stand here and say, Cher." The pop legend born Cherilyn Sarkisian then began singing the opening lyrics to "Walking in Memphis ...

This much becomes abundantly clear in Cher: The Memoir, Part One, an absorbing account of one woman’s gradual rise from near Dickensian poverty to pop and TV superstardom in tandem with a man she ...