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For today's episode, we are sharing the second installment in our Share double parter. This episode will cover

Shares disco comeback with 1979's Take Me Home all the way through the most recent part of

Cher's career, which appears to never stop going. So without further ado, here is Pop Pantheon

Share Part 2.

By the late 1970s, disco fever had reached every corner of America and the world.

By 1978, the BG scored three number one hits with disco songs, alongside other disco chart-toppers like a taste of honey's boogie-yogi-yugi, sheikhs Le Freak freak and Donna Summers MacArthur Park. Everyone from Blondie to Rod Stewart was going disco and as Cher signed a new record deal, her new label, Casablanca, wanted her to cash in on the craze. Cher had initially intended to make a rock album, but Casablanca, home to the village people and Summer, knew how to sell disco records and she acquiesced to the label's suggestion,

despite misgivings about the genre.

In 1979, the same year she began her first Las Vegas residency,

Cher released the slick lounge disco tune Take Me Home,

which went on to become her first top 10 hit in five years,

a brief comeback after a series of commercial disappointments.

The album of the same name caused a stir with the cover art featuring Cher as a lascivious Viking

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