Cher (88 page)

Turner, Lana

Turner, Tina

comeback

concert tours

The Turtles

Twain, Shania

Twiggy

“Two People Clinging to a Thread”

Two the Hard Way

Tyler, Bonnie

Tyler, Steve

Ullman, Tracy

United Armenian Fund Relief Organization

United Artists Records

Universal Music Records

Updike, John

Van Patten, Dick

Van Praagh, James

Vasquez, Junior

Vaughan, Robert

Vault Records

The Ventures

VH1 Divas Live ’99

videos, music

Cher’s Video Canteen

concert

“Walking in Memphis”

The Village People

Villechaize, Herve

Viva

Voight, Jon

Vreeland, Diana

Waggoner, Lyle

Waite, Ralph

The Walker Brothers

“Walking in Memphis”

“Wall of Sound” recording method.
See also
Spector, Phil

Ward, Fred

Warhol, Andy

Warner Brothers Pictures

Warner Brothers Records

rejections by.
See also
Reprise Records

Warren, Diane

Warwick, Dionne

“Wasn’t It Good”

Waters, John

“The Way of Love”

The Way of Love

“We All Sleep Alone”

WEA/Universal Records

Webb, Jimmy

Weinberg, Elyse

Weiner, Bob

Welch, Raquel

West Side Story

Wexler, Jerry

“What’ll I Do”

“When You Say Love”

Whitaker, Mary.
See
Bono, Mary (Whitaker)

White, Maurice

Whittaker, Forest

Whittaker, Steve

wigs.
See also
beauty; costumes; fashion; makeup

Wild on the Beach

Wilde, Oscar

Will & Grace

Williams, David

Williams, Larry

Williams, Robin

Willis, Bruce

Wilson, Flip

Wilson, Mary

Winters, Shelley

Winther, Jorn

The Witches of Eastwick

With Love, Cher

Wolf, Jeanne

Wolf, William

Wolfert, David

“A Woman’s Story”

Wonder, Stevie

The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher

work schedule

Yates, Peter

“You Better Sit Down Kids”

“You Really Got a Hold on Me”

Young, Neil

Young, Robert

Zadora, Pia

Zeffirelli, Franco

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Bego is the author of several best-selling books on rock and roll and show business, with forty books published and over ten million books in print. His biographies include some of the biggest stars of rock, soul, pop, and country music. His first Top 10
New York Times
bestseller was
Michael!
[Jackson] (1984). Since that time he has written about the lives of Rock Hudson, Aretha Franklin, Jewel, and Madonna.

In the 1990s Bego branched out into country music books, writing
Country Hunks
(1994),
Country Gals
(1995),
I Fall to Pieces: The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline
(1995),
Alan Jackson: Gone Country
(1996),
George Strait: The Story of Country’s Living Legend
(1997),
LeAnn Rimes
(1998), and
Vince Gill
(2000). In 2000, his Patsy Cline biography was rated by
E! Online
as one of the Top 10 music bios of all times.

Bego has coauthored books with several rock stars, including Martha Reeves’s
Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva
, which spent five weeks on the
Chicago Tribune
bestseller list in 1994. He worked with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees (
I’m a Believer
, 1993), Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night (
One Is the Loneliest Number
, 1991), and Mary Wilson (
Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme
, 2000 edition).

His writing has also been featured in several record albums and compact discs. In 1982 he wrote the interior notes to the Columbia House five-record boxed set
The Motown Collection
. His liner notes can also be found in the CDs Mary Wilson,
Walk the Line
(1992) and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas,
Lost and Found
(Motown Records 2001).

In 1998 Mark wrote books about three of the hottest leading men in late 1990s cinema. His
Leonardo DiCaprio: Romantic Hero
spent six weeks on the
New York Times
bestseller list. He followed it up with
Matt Damon: Chasing a Dream
and
Will Smith: The Freshest Prince
.

In 1998 Melitta Coffee launched
Mark Bego: Romantic Hero
blend coffee as part of their Celebrity Series. Mark divides his time between New York City, Los Angeles, and Tucson, Arizona. Visit his website at
www.MarkBego.com

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