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…
