Word: benatar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Records Top-Ten Albums [from Rolling Stone magazine, February 10] Album/Artist Coop Discount Records Strawberries Business as Usual/Men at Work $5.49 7.49 7.29 Built for Speed/Stray Cats 6.89 7.49 7.29 Get Nervous/Pat Benatar 5.49 7.49 7.29 H2O/Hall and Oats 5.67 7.99 7.47 The Nylon Curtain/Billy Joel 5.49 -- 7.29 Midnight Love/Marvin Gaye 6.89 7.49 7.29 Night and Day/Joe Jackson 5.67 5.99 7.49 Hello, I Must Be Going/Phil Collims 5.49 7.49 6.29 Coda/Led Zeppelin 5.49 5.99 6.29 Thriller/Michael Jackson...
MARRIED. Pat Benatar, 29, Grammy Award-winning best female rock singer (Fire and Ice); and Neil Geraldo, 30, her lead guitar player and co-producer of her last album, Precious Time; she for the second time, he for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...
...TIME's music reviewer since last May, these attributes have proved very handy. In seven months he has made 20 trips away from his New York City base, including three to California, for performances of the San Francisco Opera; to Buffalo, for a story on Rock Singer Pat Benatar; and to Lewiston, N.Y., for the American premiere of Philip Glass's controversial new op era, Satyagraha. He has been to Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, and the White House twice, once for a memorable concert featuring the American debut of a long-lost Mozart symphony. Last...
...Benatar's music is a return to rock 'n' roll's straight-ahead roots. Her best songs-Promises in the Dark, Fire and Ice, Heartbreaker-are free of the fussy overproduction that characterized so much of '70s music. They have a big beat and hummable melodies-a throwback to the '60s. But what she purveys is not nostalgia, even though she includes in her act such songs as the Beatles' Helter Skelter-"That's what we heard when we were teething," she explains. "You can't escape...
After marriage at 19 to her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar, an Army draftee, Pat found herself living in Richmond and working in a bank. She had even stopped singing. "But I couldn't reconcile our poor life-style with the sight of all that money," she recalls, "and when I got the first thought of stealing it, I quit...