BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the singer and actor Cher.
She's the only solo artist in history to have clocked up number ones on the Billboard chart in seven consecutive decades.
Her acclaimed acting career in films including Silkwood Mask and Moonstruck has earned her an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, and the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
She grew up in Los Angeles and started out singing backup for the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers when she was just a teenager before becoming one half of Sonny and Cher with her boyfriend Sonny Bono.
Following Mick Jagger's advice, they took their act to London, where Mick assured them their bohemian look would be a hit.
He was right.
I got you, babe.
Knocked the Beatles off the top of the chart and began a love affair with the UK that would last a lifetime.
Her dance floor anthem Believe remains the biggest selling number one by a female artist in British chart history.
She's been a TV star, a fashion icon, and has collaborated with everyone from David Bowie to the Wu Tang Clan.
And this year she was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.
Now in her 70s, she's still exploring new frontiers.
She says, all my adult life, I've had people telling me who I am.
Sometimes the me they tell me I am is fabulous.
At other times, that me is worse than garbage.
They don't bother asking who I think I am because they already know better.