When Keith Richards played tuba on “I Got You Babe”

Talking to the radio announcer Howard Stern, Cher she recalled as paving the path to success for her and her husband Sonny Bono he was the frontman of Rolling Stones Mick Jagger which pushed them to move to England to be discovered by the public. “We had just done “I Got You Babe”, but no one had heard it,” explained the 78-year-old of Armenian origin Cheryl Sarkisian.

Cher
in his recent autobiography
‘Cher: The Memoir, Part One’
reported the following. “No one in England knew who Sonny and Cher were, when we arrived at the revolving doors of the Hilton, personally escorted by the manager, there were two journalists standing outside. They asked us, ‘Sonny, Cher, the Hilton has just kicked out?’ ‘Is it because of your looks?’ Too exhausted to talk, I let Sonny take care of everything. When the reporters had what they wanted, he called a taxi to take us to another hotel where the bed was uncomfortable, there was no one. it was the TV and the water was dripping from the shower. We slept for 12 hours straight and had time to wash and get dressed, and we were famous.”

“I Got You Babe”
released in July 1965, it reached number one in the UK singles chart, while the following month it reached number one in the American chart. In September 1965 i

Rolling Stones
they gave a rather curious performance, miming
“I Got You Babe”
on the popular British TV music show Ready Steady Go.

Introducing their performance
Mick Jagger
he said, “The thing that’s missing from Ready Steady Go! is mimicry. We haven’t had mimicry competitions in a long time, but here we have a new group of Leighton Buzzards who will do their best for you.” Their show begins with the host
Cathy McGowan
and the guitarist of
Rolling Stones Brian Jones
who mime the song. At the first chorus, the camera moves to the other guitarist in the band,
Keith Richards
who pretends to play the tuba, without the mouthpiece, with his cheeks puffing out. Shortly after, the drummer
Charlie Watts
he enters the scene carrying a giant sunflower which Jones then sticks into Richards’ tuba.