Cher welcomed her first child, Chaz Bono, on March 4, 1969, with then-husband Sonny Bono. Chaz made his television debut in 1973, appearing on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.

Cher was 18 when she married 29-year-old Salvatore “ Sonny” Bono on Oct. 27, 1964, and they divorced just six years later—but the entity that was Sonny & Cher endured.