"It was," Benatar replied. "Somebody said, 'I don't understand why his name has to be up on the marquee, too.' I said, 'Because every song that you love and listen to is created by him, ass***.'" That kind of pushback, they say, explains one of the great mysteries of the ...
"Benatar said, "We're connected in so many ways, all of them combined together; you're parents, you're lovers, you're husband and wife, you're grandparents, you're musicians, you're writers. I mean, it's so much!"The daughter of blue collar Long Islanders, she almost never had t...
BUY PAT BENATAR TICKETS HERE Pat was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski, January 10, 1953, in Brooklyn. In high school she participated in musical theatre and later worked as a bank teller after moving to Richmond, Virginia. She quit that job in the mid 70s to pursue a career in musi...
In the early ‘90s, Benatar was faced with a dilemma shared by many acts who’d dominated the ‘80s: stick with their sound and rebel against music’s changing tide, or lean into the alt-rock revolution. Benatar chose the latter, and while other artists who voyaged down that path failed...
To be fair, there are certainly things to like about this LP. The lead single “All Fired Up” rocked with power and energy, fueled by Giraldo’s dynamic guitar riffs. It became the last of Benatar’s songs to peak withinBillboard’s Top 20. But beyond “All Fired Up” and the unde...
Hear your favorite songs like: Hit Me with Your Best Shot and Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar, Back on the Chain Gang and Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders, Stand Back and Edge of 17 by Stevie Nicks, and I Love Rock and Roll and I Hate Myself for Loving You by Joan Jett! To the shea...