Legendary 60s star confirms retirement from making music marking the end of an era

Cher has called time on making new music after her 28th studio album (Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

Cher appears to have confirmed her retirement from making music at the age of 78.

The Believe singer was speaking at London’s Lyceum Theatre in support of her book The Memoir: Part One when she discussed her future.

‘This is probably my last album that I’m gonna do,’ she said of her upcoming 28th studio album.

‘I’m really excited. They are great songs and I’m just really excited that I’m doing it.’

She continued, according to The Sun: ‘I’m really excited to be doing anything now. I’m older than dirt now, OK? I’m the oldest person I meet in almost every room unless I’m in an old folks’ home.’

The If I Could Turn Back Time star added that she always reminds younger women to ‘get over yourself’ and ‘get out there’ as they have many years ahead of them.

The star has enjoyed six decades of making music (Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

She hasn’t ruled out touring, but will not be making any more music (Picture: TheStewartofNY/FilmMagic)

‘I don’t care if you’re 50,’ she said, adding: ‘I’d give anything to be 60 again. I was a f***ing hottie!’

The star also said she doesn’t ‘feel’ older, also acknowledging that she likes hanging out with younger people (‘not just men’).

‘I like young people because a lot of my friends don’t want to have that much fun,’ she reflected. ‘They can just go off and be old fogies.’

Cher raised a few eyebrows when it was revealed her boyfriend Alexander Edwards was 40 years younger than her.

But the singer shrugged off any criticism, stating on Instagram: ‘Love doesn’t know math, it sees.’

While this looks like the last recording hurrah for the icon, she didn’t rule out continuing to tour.

Just last month, Cher sang a duet with Dua Lipa of her hit song Believe at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Cher has been a huge pop culture icon for the past 60 years (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images)

She found fame in the 1960s as part of Sonng & Cher with her husband (Picture: Douglas Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

But while many expressed concern that the 29-year-old Training Season hitmaker was ‘struggling’ to hit the notes, Cher belted out her legendary track like it was 1998 again.

Cher found fame in the 1960s alongside her husband Sonny, as the pair released hit songs including I Got You Babe and Little Man as part of Sonny & Cher.

What followed was decades of solo success with hits including Believe and If I Could Turn Back Time, which remain widely-enjoyed classics to this day.

Her talents extended outside the world of music, as Cher also appeared in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and hosted TV shows in her younger years including the Golden Globe-winning Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.

Over her six-decade career, Cher has secured a Grammy award for her 2001 dance hit Love One Another, an Emmy award for her 2003 special Cher – The Farewell Tour and an Oscar for best actress in 1988 for her starring role in Moonstruck.

Cher’s voice is still as brilliant as ever ever (Picture: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

All this makes her just a Tony award away from the coveted Hollywood quartet – the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.)

No release date has been given for Cher’s final album.

Cher was just 16 when she married Sonny Bono, who was 27 at the time, but the romance wasn’t to last and they finalised their divorce in 1975.

In her memoir – which was released earlier this month – Cher revealed their relationship had some deep problems.

In the pages, she recalled wanting to take her own life in a Las Vegas hotel room in 1972, after feeling ‘defeated’.

‘There I was, 26-years-old and in what had become a loveless marriage,’ she penned of her relationship with Sonny, who died in 1998.

‘I stepped barefoot onto the balcony of our suite and stared down. I was dizzy with loneliness. I saw how easy it would be to step over the edge and simply disappear. For a few crazy minutes I couldn’t imagine any other option.

‘I did this five or six times, and each time I’d think about Chaz, about my mother, about my sister, about everybody and how things like this could make people who look up to me feel that it’s a viable situation and I would step back inside.’

Her outlook then shifted as she realised that she could just break off their marriage instead.

‘Then one morning everything changed,’ she penned. ‘That night between shows I went out on the balcony again and this time I thought, I don’t have to jump off, I can just leave him.’

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