Ignazio Deddu's video: Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

1983) The music video, which depicted Benatar as a teenage runaway trying to survive the mean streets of New York City, was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and was viewable on the DVD for the movie 13 Going on 30. The single was unlike most of Benatar's previous work, as it featured an electronic dance element, but guitars and drums were still present. The song won Benatar a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. ______________________________ Pat Benatar was the most successful female hard-rock singer of the '80s. She grew up on Long Island, where at age 17 she began vocal training in preparation for study at the Juilliard School of Music. She soon rebelled against the rigorous training and ended her studies. After turning 18, she married Dennis Benatar, a GI stationed in Richmond, Virginia. There she worked as a bank clerk before taking a job as a singing waitress. In 1975 the couple returned to New York; they later divorced. Benatar began working Manhattan's cabaret circuit in 1975 with a chanteuse style derived from Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross. At Catch a Rising Star, she attracted the attention of club owner Rick Newman, who became her manager. By 1978 she had switched to a more aggressive rock approach, and after being rejected by several labels was signed to Chrysalis. Benatars debut went platinum (the first of six) on the strength of the single Heartbreaker. Her 1980 followup, Crimes of Passion, sold over 4 million, yielding two hit singles, Hit Me With Your Best Shot ( , 1980) and Treat Me Right ( , 1981). Precious Time (also multiplatinum), boasted Promises in the Dark ( , 1981) and Fire and Ice ( , 1981). Benatars early sex-kitten image - which she later stated had been thrust upon her - belied the singers choice of assertive, tough-girl lyrics and take-no-crap delivery. In 1982 she married her guitarist and musical director, Neil Giraldo, with whom she wrote most of her songs. Her streak of hits continued with Shadows of the Night ( , 1982), Little Too Late ( , 1983), Love Is a Battlefield ( , 1983), and We Belong ( , 1984). She returned to recording after the birth of her first daughter, Haley, with Invincible ( , 1985), Sex as a Weapon ( , 1985), and All Fired Up ( , 1988). Something of a stylistic departure, True Love, a collection of blues recordings, produced no hits. Two years later, Benatar was back with Gravitys Rainbow, which failed to chart. The disappointing response to her comeback, along with the birth of her second daughter, Hana, in 1994 and the absorption of her longtime label, Chrysalis, by EMI in 1995, caused an extended break in Benatars recording career. She left Chrysalis and recorded 1997s largely acoustic Innamorata for CMC International, a label that focuses on artists who had their heyday in the 70s and 80s. (The label also released a recording of a 1980 Benatar concert.) In addition to joining new labelmates Styx on a summer tour that year, she performed two dates of the first Lilith Fair. In 1999 Benatar and Giraldo were given carte blanche to select songs for the three-disc hits collection Synchronistic Wanderings, distributed by Chrysalis new parent company. The box set includes eight previously unreleased tracks, including an early cover of Roy Orbisons Crying. In 2000 the couple began recording a new album for Sonys Portrait label and had turned their attention to encouraging their teenage daughter Haleys band, GLO. from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)a