After more than 60 years in the music industry, Cher has claimed her forthcoming record will “probably” be the last album she releases.
Per U.K. publication The Sun, Cher made her recent comments while at London’s Lyceum Theatre in support of her recently-released biography, Cher: The Memoir, Part One. While discussing the first of her two-volume release, she turned her attention to her forthcoming 28th album.
“This is probably my last album that I’m gonna do,” she admitted. “I’m really excited. They are great songs and I’m just really excited that I’m doing it.”
Though no specific details have been announced as yet, Cher confirmed her intentions to make a new record while speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. A new record of entirely original material would be her first since 2013’s Closer to the Truth, though some new compositions arrived on 2023’s Christmas, which topped the Top Holiday Albums chart.
“I’m really excited to be doing anything now,” Cher told the English crowd. “I’m older than dirt now, OK? I’m the oldest person I meet in almost every room unless I’m in an old folks’ home.”
Releasing her first album in 1965 as one half of duo Sonny & Cher with then-husband Sonny Bono, Cher launched a solo career that same year, and embarking upon a journey which would eventually see her crowned the ‘Godess of Pop’.
In October, Cher was honored with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony which also saw Mary J. Blige, A Tribe Called Quest, Peter Frampton, and others inducted.
During her well-received speech at the ceremony, Cher recalled the advice that she had been given by her mother from a young age that guided her career to where it is today. “She said to me, ‘You might not be the prettiest, you might not be the smartest, you might not be the most talented, but you’re special,’” she said. “She kept instilling it into me: ‘If you’re down and you’re out, you get up again.’”
Cher continued her speech by ensuring the women in the audience were paying attention to her words. “The one thing I have never done, is I never give up. And I am talking to the women, okay — you guys are on your own,” she offered. “We have been down and out, but we keep striving, and we keep going and we are somebody. We are special, as my mother would say.”
