Pat Benetar had her breakthrough right at the end of the Seventies, with a string of singles from her October 1979 album “In The Heat Of The Night”, particularly “I Need a Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me” and “Heartbreaker”, the latter reaching No. 23 in the U.S.
So she’s “only just” a Seventies artist, but who cares…
Especially with songs like these.
“I Need A Lover”:
“If You Think You Know How to Love Me”:
“Heartbreaker”:
Shortly after that, with her second album “Crimes Of Passion”, came her signature song, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”:
One of the biggest hits of Pat Benetar’s career was “Love Is A Battlefield”. I particularly remember this one (albeit we were now in the Eighties, not the Seventies any more), because a dance band I was working for as a roadie in South Germany had a female singer who sang the song a lot.
Here’s the orignal of “Love Is A Battlefield”:
And not much later came another smash hit, “We Belong”:
Pat Benetar was the first female artist featured on MTV and is one of the top-selling female artists overall.
Doesn’t take much to work out why…
Paul