 Yes, by the second half of the 1960s, Cher's solo career was taking off big time, just as Sonny and Cher as a duo were falling out of favor. Almost as quickly as was Sonny and Cher's meteoric rise to fame was their popular decline as the decade ended. Sonny and Cher's anti-drug stance and monogamous lifestyle, especially after 1967's Summer of Love,