
Artist
Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar is a hard rock artist from Brooklyn, USA formed in 1953. 34 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hard Rock · Brooklyn, USA · Best hard rock albums
- 34
- Releases
- 1979–2024
- Active years
- 1953
- Formed

Artist
Pat Benatar is a hard rock artist from Brooklyn, USA formed in 1953. 34 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hard Rock · Brooklyn, USA · Best hard rock albums

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Greatest Hits
2005

In the Heat of the Night
1979

Crimes of Passion
1980

Get Nervous
1982

Best Shots
1989

Tropico
1984

Precious Time
1981

Wide Awake in Dreamland
1988

Seven the Hard Way
1985

True Love
1991

Gravity's Rainbow
1993

Synchronistic Wanderings
1999

The Collection
2024
35th Anniversary Tour
2014

Live In America
2014

Ultimate Collection
2008

Summer Vacation (Live)
2004
Go
2003
The Very Best Pat Benatar Album Ever
2002

The Very Best Of Pat Benatar
2001
Live: Summer Vacation Tour Soundtrack
2001

8-15-80
2000
Precious Time / Get Nervous
1998
In the Heat of the Night / Crimes of Passion
1998

Premium Gold Collection
1998
Tropico / Seven the Hard Way
1998
Innamorata
1997
The Very Best Of
1994

Live From Earth (Live)
1984
Live From Earth
1983
Patricia Mae Andrzejewski was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City. Her Polish father, Andrew, was a sheet-metal worker, and her Irish mother, Mildred, a beautician. Her family later moved to North Hamilton Avenue in Lindenhurst, New York, a village within the Long Island town of Babylon. Patti (as she was known) became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing her first solo at age eight, at Daniel Street Elementary School, a song called "It Must Be Spring". At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967-71), Benatar participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot, marching in the homecoming parade, singing at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year. Benatar was cut off from the rock scene in nearby Manhattan. Her musical training was strictly classical and theatrical. Training as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, Benatar surprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursued health education at the State University of New York at S…