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Cher reveals why her marriage to Gregg Allman lasted only nine days

Cher and the late singer tied the knot in 1975

The Independent UK

"Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks effortlessly recreate Duane Allmanand Dickey Betts' searing guitar lines": The Allman Brothers Band's final show, officially preserved for all time

The Allmans' big finish, recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York

Louder

“Butch Trucks said, ‘We should all go hear my nephew play. He’s amazing and he's 11.’ We're all like, ‘Yeah, okay…’” Warren Haynes recalls the first time he witnessed a young Derek Trucks play guitar

Haynes and his Allman Brothers bandmates took a night off to watch an 11-year-old Trucks play – and ended up sharing the stage for an impromptu jam

Guitar World

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“What a treat to get back into the studio with my brother Derek”: Warren Haynes reunites with Derek Trucks to revive a lost Allman Brothers song on his forthcoming solo album

Million Voices Whisper will include Real, Real Love – a song co-written by Gregg Allman, which was unearthed and completed in the style of the late guitar great

Guitar World

“He doesn't get a writer's credit for Melissa, but Berry was an integral part of the band's chemistry”: Cut down in his prime, bassist Berry Oakley was behind some of the Allman Brothers Band’s most groove-savvy movements

Berry Oakley employed a heavily modified ’62 Jazz Bass to help bind together this Southern rock classic by the Allman Brothers

Guitar World

"Seven Turns is professional, competent, and worthy": the Allman Brothers Band look to the past on Seven Turns but fall just short of living up to it

With Tom Dowd producing, Gregg Allman in fine voice and new guitarist Warren Haynes on board, the Brothers returned after a decade away with Seven Turns

Louder

Dickey Betts obituary

Guitarist, singer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band best known for writing their 1973 hit Ramblin’ Man

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“I liked to go to this old abandoned graveyard by the river to write songs. The gravestone next to where I was sitting said, ‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed’, so that became the song’s title”: The 25 greatest Allman Brothers Band songs

From Dickey Betts’ iconic instrumentals to the tracks that made ABB one of rock’s most revered jam groups, here are the best Allman Brothers Band cuts from across their catalog – and the stories behind them

Guitar World

“We thought Ramblin’ Man was too country to record. We put it on the album, and it became a hit. Then it more and more became Dickey’s band”: Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman tell the full story of the Allman Brothers Band, one of rock’s greatest groups

In this career-spanning oral history from 2009, Betts, Allman, Warren Haynes, Butch Trucks and more retrace the turmoil, tragedies and triumphs behind the Allman Brothers Band

Guitar World

Allman Brothers Band Co-Founder Dickey Betts Dies At 80

Remembering Dickey Betts, the influential guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, who shaped Southern rock and left a lasting musical legacy.

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Cher and boyfriend attend Grammys party amidst conservatorship controversy

Cher and boyfriend attend pre-Grammys party amidst family drama. Cher loses bid to become son's conservator. Controversy ensues.

Salon

Cher's bid for conservatorship denied

Cher filed for temporary control of her son's finances last year because of concerns over substance abuse

Evening Standard

Cher denied request for temporary conservatorship over 47-year-old son's money

Singer's lawyers argued large payments from his late father's trust are putting Elijah Blue Allman in danger, due to his mental health and substance abuse

Salon

Cher's conservatorship request denied

In late December, the singer filed the request stating that her son was unfit to control his own assets

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The Independent UK

Cher is denied an immediate conservatorship over son's money, but the issue isn't done

A Los Angeles judge has declined to give Cher an immediate court conservatorship over her son's money

The Independent UK

Cher’s daughter-in-law attacks singer’s ‘deeply disturbing’ conservatorship bid

Cher filed to be made Allman’s conservator claiming ‘severe’ substance abuse and mental health struggles

Salon

Cher files for conservatorship of son

At the root of the conservatorship appear to be concerns over substance abuse and her son's ex

Cinemablend

Following Kidnapping Allegations, Music Superstar Cher Files For Conservatorship Over Son's Assets

Not too long after debunking allegations of kidnapping her son, Cher has filed for a conservatorship over him.

The Independent UK

Cher files for conservatorship of son Elijah Blue Allman ‘over drug addiction fears’

Cher, 77, says she is concerned Elijah Blue Allman is ‘substantially unable to manage’ his money amid addiction struggles

Marie Claire

Tom Hanks Says He "Worked for Cher" as a Bellhop in the 1970s

Stop, imagine.

Evening Standard

Cher admits she found son Chaz’s transition ‘difficult’ as a mother

Chaz Bono came out as transgender in 2009 and the music icon admitted at the time she ‘didn't handle [it] well’

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