So we’re within two weeks of Santa’s descent.

The LPs and the In Conversation at the Odeon record guide and cassette tape have landed. We should have the bulk of the artifacts for this album.

And it all feels so huge everything considered. Like massively bigger than “Believe” in many ways. That song was such a slow-starter in the United States, the evolution of its success such a long tail experience.  And Cher was still just getting begrudging respect.

Cher’s iconic status has seemingly now hit the roof and even stars like Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are fan-girl and fan-boying over her on talk shows, to the point where the A-list stars were crowding Timothée Chalamet off the couch due to wanting to sit back and watch Cher on the other end of the couch. Julia Roberts tells Andy Cohen about it.

It feels a little bit unreal. Imagine what it must feel like for Cher.

And the appearances are so numerous, it’s challenging to keep up with them. I’ve created a static Cher Christmas page so I wouldn’t have to track down that wrap-up blog post of all Cher’s Christmas assets and appearances, including the new album stuff and the album guide from the In Conversation at the Odeon event.

The album guide came with a special Christmas message from Cher: