But behind the scenes, Cher writes in her new book, "The Memoir: Part One," Bono had become increasingly controlling. Bono, who was 11 years her senior, had already forbidden her from wearing perfume, playing softball with her mom, going to parties ...

Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared.

Cher was 16 when she met the 27-year-old record producer Sonny Bono. She was 18 when she married Bono — her first marriage, his second — and 19 when the couple released the smash 1965 single “I Got You,