If you don't know, Pat Benatar is finally being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year. Now that she is in, she revealed why she refused the induction for many years. She would not accept until her husband and guitarist for her entire 40+ year career was also inducted. Neil Giraldo arranged all of her songs and they have always been a musical partnership. They are an amazing couple as well.
Pat is a classically trained opera voice. There is no note she can't reach. Y'all should check anything from her blues album (True Love) best concert I ever went to
I remember seeing Pat interviewed about this video. The director kept antagonizing her, telling her to shake her butt more, making her mad. She didn't like the sex symbol promotion. When she was starting, her music was rock but influenced a little by late punk new wave stuff that was getting popular with teens at the time. Her music was a staple of rock radio, and girls dressed like her all over the country.
That girl looks just like Pat Benatar. I know. Wait. There are three girls at Ridgemont who have cultivated the Pat Benatar look. Chanel Semlar... Mary Ann Zlotnick in the red tights. Do you think guys find that more attractive? Stacy, please, give me a break! You are so much prettier than them!
Thank You for playing PB. She’s my favorite. Her voice goes beyond. I’ve seen her multiple times in concert & she never disappoints. Her range is sick.
Benatars original sound which you can hear on her earliest live rock shows (the Eight- fifteen-eighty Album) was very punk- ish. It was esp popular in the NYC area she grew up in and returned to during her 1st marriage.
"You Better Run" is a song by the Young Rascals. Written by group members Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere, it was released as the band's third single in 1966 and reached the top 20 in the United States.
Pat Benatar's first album came out just 2 years after the first Sex Pistols album. She would've been 23 when the Ramones dropped their first album in 1976. She didn't grow up listening to punk rock. She was playing music during that time.
This incredible artist writes can sing in just about any genre she wants. Rock, ballads, you name it. Prolific writer who’s married to the killer guitarist in the band. As you can see in the comments that she finally got the recognition she deserves. They’re still performing!
For years Pat was in a jazz/lounge band with her husband. After they divorced she kept his surname, moved to NY and developed a rock persona. Her old band were surprised that she got so big in a different genre.
Pat's mother was an opera singer, and she had opera training. She was accepted by Juiliard before she ran off and got married at the age of 16 (that marriage did not last, but his name Benatar, stuck). She has a gorgeous voice. It fit with the rock music of the era.
Yep, Pat Benatar, Ann Wilson, and Steve Nicks are my favs of all-time. Pat was also a 5 octav singer I believe. Her Classical training paid off huge in R&R.
Her and her husband Neil ACE Giraldo have been together and married since 1982 so it very well could be the way she felt about him...they were both elected into the Rock n Roll hall of Fame a year or two ago... They get better with Age... Like a Fiiiiiiiine Wine🤪
I remember singing this into my hairbrush when I was a kid! When Pat Benatar exploded on the scene all the girls started dressing like her. She was the S***! You should react to "Hell is for Children" or "Never Gonna Leave You"....two of my favorites from PB.
My girl is finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. It will be televised in Nov. I think. She’s just a badass rockin chick! Love her!
This was a Rascals (aka Young Rascals) original. They were huge in their day, you should check out some of their tunes like Groovin, Good Lovin, People Gotta Be Free...
@@carlaharrington5120 It was on their Groovin' album and was released as a single .. not a big hit, but that album had enough hits from it.. they do need to touch on The Rascals.. they are in the rock and roll hall of fame ..
This is a cover of a song from the 60's. Many of her early songs were covers. She was pretty much a contemporary of The Sex Pistols and Ramones, with her first album coming out just a two or three years after theirs. She has songs in different styles, some of which are closer to hard rock or punk rock such as this one or Heartbreaker. I believe this video was one of the first to air on MTV.
I love her for a while she was really huge...girls emulated her looks...hit after hit.....she was the It Girl and well deserved... a great singer!!!!!!
The longest married couple in Rock music. Her husband can, and does some awesome guitar work in concert. It's funny how she sings about cheaters and Heartbreakers when she has been married to the same guy since forever
I think I may still have this album on vinyl…I listened to this record so many times. This is considered hard female rock I think, but you’re right, she does sound a bit punk. Love from Seattle!
We Live For Love is her first and doesn’t sound like anything else she has done since but it’s amazing…..fun fact tYpu Better Run was the second video ever played on MTV
Underrated band as far as instrumental skill and song construction. Pat is a legendary vocalist, and her band can blaze...great live show back in the day.
@@tonyponchopeters you got the 1st two.from 3-10 are as follows. (3) Rod Stewart- She Won't Dance With Me (4) The Who- You Better You Bet (5) PhD- Little Suzi's on the UP (6) Cliff Richard- We Don't Talk Anymore (7) The Pretenders- Brass In Pocket (8) Todd Rundgren- Time Heals (9) REO Speedwagon-Take It On The Run (10) Styx- Rockin The Paradise.😅
There was a teenage Girl Punk band around the same time this song came out very controversial called "The Runaways" The members where "Joan Jett" "Lita Ford" "Cherie Currie" singer "Sandy West" "Micki Steele" "Vicki Blue" "Jackie Fox" check out their song.. " CHERRY BOMB" Everybody that knows this band would love to see your reaction 😁
I believe the Rolling Stones and Robert Plant were Benatar's rock influences. The "rasp" in her voice is a vocal technique that Benatar learned is order to safely distort the vocal chord sound without damaging them. Hence, she is still touring and sounding great today.
So much respect for Ms Benatar and her husband. Rocking all these years, touching so many people along the way. Talk about, influential... man. Rock royalty.
Yes, she is EXTREMELY talented. It helped her out that she was originally trained to sing opera which taught her precise vocal control and how to project her voice. Then she turned 18, told her parents that she was going to pursue rock and roll instead. She left home, found a band and met her hubby to be and between the two of them (his songwriting and her talented, sexy voice), they struck gold in and industry that chews up talent and spits them out 999 times out of 1,000. She's really tiny too. I saw her live and she MIGHT be 5 ft even, if that, but has the voice of a giant. I especially respect her advocacy against child abuse and how every cent she makes from "Hell Is For Children" goes to support victims. Even when it was at the top of the charts, she never took a penny. In fact, Chrysalis Records didn't want her to put it on her album, but she told them that either it went on or they didn't get any album, period. Turned out to be a smash AND incredible PR for both her AND the record company
Isn’t she just the cutest, tiniest little bad a** power house! Little lady, big voice! There’s no one like Pat!! I could never pick a favorite of hers I love everything she’s done!
Freakin ❤️ this song & ❤️ Pat Benetar 🔥🔥🔥 she has an awesome RASP to her voice. But she can hit the higher register with such ease. She was def a force in Rock m Roll as was Joan Jett. They really had to work extra hard to prove themselves in a male dominated genre of music they had to show they could be just as hard as the guys, but record execs also wanted them to have that sex appeal bc without that, they wouldn't have been given a chance getting shows booked. 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️
Great live version in the HBO special from the mid-80s from a concert at New Haven, CT. The band was really hot live. The whole concert was great. The great guitar lines were even more present and Pat's vocals were even more powerful live. I Want Out was really smoking in the concert.
Pat Benatar the little Rock and Roll queen who could sing opera music because of her high range vocals and yet she became the hot little woman who could belt out pure gems by giving the song the Benatar touch of tough edge her voice gives while still giving attitude of being a bad girl. Pat can do it all.
The Young Rascal's big hit in 1966, written by members Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere. My band, the Cell Blocks, performed this song at a dance in a Catholic School Auditorium, and it was a big hit with the crowd.
Love PB. check out her duo with Martina Mcbride, "Independence day", from the show Crossroads. The show put current artists with their Idols. The song is Martina's but Pat owned it. Martina is country and good...a twofer.
This is before she went commercial and "dance". Once she went through this route - her popularity waned, and the 90's was the end of her popular career.
This was the second video on the new channel MTV This is an " incomparable" Icon. Never forget time line. She showed a lot of people how it's done. 🤘😎🤘
"A bubble in her voice"???!!! Never heard that one before! Haha....Pat Benatar released her first album in 1979...only 3 years after the Ramones' first album and only 2 years after The Sex Pistols' first album....while it's possible that there may have been some influence, she certainly didn't grow up listening to them! She one of the great female rockers of all time....and a little 5 foot dynamo!
She is one tiny, full of spunk powerhouse. She and her lead guitarist husband write and play songs of power. If they are doing one that wins like this or one that laments the losses (Hell is for Children) its always going to be at least very good and at best extra great. She was opera trained.
I believe this is the ONLY cover she ever did (that became a hit at least) and was the 2nd video EVER on MTV. It played right after the 1st (of course) one, a One-Hit Wonder called Video Killed The Radio Star. Fortunately for ALL of us, Pat's was NOT her only hit. Still, it's really strange that the 1 song that predicted the end of radio's prominence over the airwaves was itself, quickly forgotten.
She was classified with the punk albums in 1982 because they didn’t know what category to put her in . Tom petty was too. Dwight Yoakum was too. Come to think of it, you all could do some Dwight Yoakum... maybe “ guitars, Cadillacs and hillbilly music”....that’s a great song.
Face it Brad/Lex: Pat's voice can do it all..sing with romantic passion, ultra-high notes, rock-girrrrl growl, or just plain power note.. As for her look back then...yep, mos def a punk rock style for sure!
