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Heart of Stone was released in 1989 and was her second studio album for Geffen Records. As with her previous album Cher, Peter Asher, Jon Bon Jovi, Diane Warren, Guy Roche and Desmond Child performed songwriting and/or producing duties. Bonnie Tyler and Michael Bolton performed background vocals on the song "Emotional Fire", which was an outtake from Bolton's 1987 album The Hunger, as was "Starting Over" (Demo versions of the song exist in bootleg form). The album was recorded in late 1988/early 1989, during the third year of Cher's relationship with Rob Camilletti, to whom she dedicated the album. Heart of Stone reached number 10 in the U.S., number 7 in the UK, and by topping the charts in Australia, Heart of Stone became Geffen's first international number 1 album. Her 20th studio album, it was the first in her career to go top 10 in the U.S. (though she would go on to have four more, Believe, Living Proof, The Very Best of Cher and Closer to the Truth). It peaked at #10 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for sales of 209,000. As of November 2011, the album has sold 964,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which began counting sales after March 1,…