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...long time, Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar thought she was going to be an opera singer. Her mother had been in the chorus at the New York City Opera, and their home resounded with classical music. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., little Patty started singing in the fourth grade, and by the age of twelve, it was obvious that she not only liked to sing, she really could sing. There was only one problem: she wanted to sing rock 'n' roll...
...hated opera because it was my mom's music, you know?" explains Benatar, 28. "I was into pop and rock. But I never thought I was going to sing anything but classical...
...opera house, Benatar would have been typecast as a pert soubrette because of her size (5 ft., 90 Ibs.) and high vocal range. Instead, she cracked the male-dominated rock world in a hurry. In just two years since the release of her first LP, In the Heat of the Night, she has sold 3 million singles and 7 million albums, riding her sultry, powerful voice and sexy stage demeanor to a 1981 Grammy Award...
...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...