Sonny & Cher didn't have the only massive show in town that year. Also playing the Quad-Cities in 1965 was funk icon James Brown, who appeared at Davenport's Masonic Temple in August.
But for one night in Davenport, Sonny & Cher mania reigned supreme. The husband-wife pop duo played a show at RKO Orpheum Theater on Nov. 16, 1965. Times-Democrat reporter Pat Welch was tasked with ...