Blake Hall
On January 9, 1998, Sonny Bono was laid to rest with a military honor guard in a church in Palm Springs, California. The late member of the United States House of Representatives (from California’s 44th district) had tragically died in a skiing accident a week prior in Nevada, and was being mourned by both Hollywood and Washington elite.
That’s because aside from being an elected official in the U.S. government, he was — years prior — a pop culture superstar, usually at the side of his former wife, Cher.
In 1965 they, together, rocketed to the top of the Billboard charts with a song that Bono wrote — you might know it — titled “I Got You Babe”.
In memoriam, here’s David Bowie — who died this weekend after a long battle with cancer — covering the tune alongside Marianna Faithful back in October of 1973 at the Marquee Club in London (it would be the last time Bowie ever appeared as his cosmological rock character Ziggy Stardust).
And, for good measure, here’s a peculiar photograph of Bowie as a young man (his name at birth was David Robert Jones) wearing American football pads with a friend? and what looks like a United States Navy sailor.
