In addition to the then-future "Top Gun" stars Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise, Cher's boyfriends of the 1980s included Rob Camilletti, a bagel baker and aspiring actor 18 years Cher's junior; movie producer Josh Donen; and Richie Sambora, the lead guitarist of Bon Jovi. Cher's younger son, Elijah Blue Allman, recalled jamming with Sambora while the Bon Jovi guitarist dated his mother.

"Richie and I would sit up all night playing guitar. He would play me some really pivotal things that shaped who I became as a musician," Allman said, per the Daily Mail. Even before he was playing with Bon Jovi's lead guitarist as a teenager, Allman had been gifted his first musical instrument by another one of his mother's exes. His first electric guitar, he explained to HuffPost in 2010, was from Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.

Cher and Greg Allman are undoubtedly musical icons in their own right, so it's not surprising that Allman would've inherited the same creative spark. However, Allman's band Deadsy did stray from his mother's pop genre (and even his father's Southern rock) into heavier rock subsets like nu metal, gothic rock, and darkwave — no doubt heavily influenced by the rock and roll legends he hung out with as a teen.