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Line-Up Ex-Members Albums Singles Videos Awards Various Refers
BENATAR Pat
(voc)

Personal Data:

Born: 10.01.1953 (New York, USA, as Patricia Mae Andrzejewski)
BENATAR Pat (photo)

Line-Up:

Pat Benatar - voc
Neil Giraldo - g
Frank Linx - bg
Kevin Savigar - kb
Myron Grombacher - ds

Former Members:

Scott St. Clair Sheets (g, cca 1979-11/82)
Roger Capps (bg, cca 1979-1985); Donnie Nossov (bg, 1985-cca 1986); Fernando Saunders (bg, cca 1988)
Glen Alexander Hamilton (ds, cca 1979-1980)
Charlie Giordano (kb, 11/82-?)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.In The Heat Of The Night10/1979 Chrysalis98 12
2.Crimes Of Passion8/1980 Chrysalis 2
3.Precious Time7/1981 Chrysalis30 1
4.Get Nervous11/1982 Chrysalis73 3
5.Live From Earth10/1983 Chrysalis60 7
6.Tropico
produced by: Pat Benatar/Neil Giraldo/Peter Coleman
09.11.1984Chrysalis31 14
7.Seven The Hard Way12/1985 Chrysalis69 26
8.Best Shots
(in the USA 11/89)
10/1987 Chrysalis6 67
9.Wide Awake In Dreamland7/1988 Chrysalis11 28
10.True Love4/1991 Chrysalis40 37
11.Gravity's Rainbow6/1993 Chrysalis 85
12.The Very Best Of Pat Benatar4/1994 Chrysalis
13.Innamorata6/1997 171
14.Innamorata / 08-15-80
(2CD, 1CD live)
21.09.1998SPV
15.Synchronistic Wanderings (Recorded Anthology 1979-1999)
(3CD box set)
05.10.1999EMD
16.King Biscuit Presents25.01.2000King Biscuit
17.Live
& Neil Giraldo
12.03.2002Gold Circle
18.Live at Electric Ladyland20.08.2002Trad Line
19.Classic Masters08.10.2002Capitol
20.Collection29.10.2002Simply The Best
21.Go8/2003 Welk 187
22.Summer Vacation Tour Live
& Neil Giraldo
11.01.2005Lemon
23.Greatest Hits07.06.2005Capitol 47
24.Back to Back Hits
& Blondie
30.08.2005EMI
25.Holiday Gift Pack20.11.2007Capitol
26.Best of Pat Benatar, Vol. 115.04.2008Capitol
27.Ultimate Collection24.06.2008Capitol
28.Pat Benatar13.01.2009Madacy
29.10 Great Songs12.01.2010Capitol 123
30.Greatest Hits06.04.2010Capitol
31.Icon: Pat Benatar19.03.2013Capitol
32.Millennium Collection: 20th Century Masters01.04.2014Capitol
33.35th Anniversary Tour28.04.2015Mailboat
34.Five Classic Albums02.12.2016Spectrum Music

Neil Giraldo:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Live
& Pat Benatar
12.03.2002Gold Circle
2.Summer Vacation Tour Live
& Pat Benatar
11.01.2005Lemon

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Day Gig / Last Saturday1976 Trace
2.If You Think You Know How To Love Me / So Sincere
produced by: Mike Chapman
19.10.1979Chrysalis
3.Heartbreaker / My Clone Sleeps Alone12/1979 Chrysalis 19
4.We Live For Love / I Need A Lover
12" + If You Think You Know How To Love Me
(v GB)
08.02.1980Chrysalis
5.We Live For Love / So Sincere3/1980 Chrysalis 27
6.You Better Run / Out-A-Touch7/1980 Chrysalis 42
7.Hit Me With Your Best Shot / You Better Run
7" + Heartbreaker / We Live For Love
19.09.1980Chrysalis 7
8.Treat Me Right / Never Wanna Leave You1/1981 Chrysalis 10
9.Treat Me Right / Hell Is For Children
(v GB)
1/1981 Chrysalis
10.Fire And Ice / Hard To Believe7/1981 Chrysalis 15
11.Promises In The Dark / Evil Genius9/1981 Chrysalis 38
12.Shadows Of The Night / The Victim
7" + Treat Me Right / Heartbreaker / Anxiety (Get Nervous)
10/1982 Chrysalis83 13
13.Little Too Late / Fight It Out2/1983 Chrysalis 20
14.Looking For A Stranger4/1983 Chrysalis 39
15.Love Is A Battlefield / Hell Is For Children (live)
(v GB 6.1.84)
9/1983 Chrysalis45 4
16.We Belong / Suburban King
(v GB 21.12.84)
10/1984 Chrysalis20 5
17.Ooh Ooh Song / La Cancion Ooh Ooh1/1985 Chrysalis 36
18.Love Is A Battlefield / Here's My Heart3/1985 Chrysalis15
19.Shadows Of The Night / Hit Me With Your Best Shot
12" + Fire And Ice
6/1985 Chrysalis50
20.Invincible / Invincible (instrumental)
12" + Promises In The Dark / Heartbreaker
7/1985 Chrysalis53 10
21.Sex As A Weapon / Red Vision11/1985 Chrysalis67 28
22.Le Bel Age2/1986 Chrysalis 54
23.All Fired Up / Cool Zero
12" + Hit Me With Your Best Shot / Fire And Ice / Just Like Me / Promises In The Dark / Precious Time
6/1988 Chrysalis18 19
24.Don't Walk Away / Lift 'Em On Up
12",CD + Hell Is For Children (live) / We Live For Love
9/1988 Chrysalis42
25.One Love / Wide Awake In Dreamland
12" + Sex As A Weapon
CD + Love Is A Battlefield
12/1988 Chrysalis59
26.Payin' The Cost To Be A Boss / True Love
12",CD + Evening
6/1991 Chrysalis
27.Somebody's Baby
CD + Temptation / Promises In The Dark (live)
11.10.1993Chrysalis48
28.Hit Me With Your Best Shot / Heartbreaker
(reissue)
07.06.2011Collectables

Videos:

1. Benatar - 4/1984, RCA
2. Best Shots (Hit Videos)
3. Live - 12.03.2002, Gold Circle, live, & Neil Giraldo

Awards:

1980 Grammy Awards - Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (LP "Crimes Of Passion")
1981 Grammy Awards - Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (SP "Fire And Ice")
1982 Grammy Awards - Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (SP "Shadows Of The Night")
1983 Grammy Awards - Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (SP "Love Is A Battlefield")
2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Various:

20.2.1982 married Neil Giraldo

appeared on the LP:

Jeffrey Osborne: Don't Stop (10/84, A&M)
Dolly Parton: Rockstar (17.11.23, Butterfly)

appeared on the SP:
Artists United Against Apartheid: Sun City (12/85, EMI)

Neil Giraldo:

20.2.1982 married Pat Benatar

appeared on the LP:

Dolly Parton: Rockstar (17.11.23, Butterfly)

Press References:

Big Beng!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19983401.10.199826Forum kritikumalbum review
Melodie
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19818 234
Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19794020.10.197922Singlessingle review
19794424.11.19795US Newsgig review
1980823.02.198020interview
19801008.03.198023Singlessingle review
19801008.03.198027Caught In The Actgig review
19803220.09.198016Singlessingle review
19803220.09.198032Albumsalbum review
19813025.07.198122Albumsalbum review
19813422.08.198112Singlessingle review
19825011.12.198223Singlessingle review
1983529.01.19839interview
1983529.01.198322Caught In The Actgig review
1984107.01.19844Fast Forward - Record News
19841407.04.19844Fast Forward
19843803.11.19844Fast Forward - Record News
19844415.12.19844Fast Forward - Record News
19934216.10.199339Singlessingle review
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19931820.09.199315
1994314.02.19947Galerie
199812 100Recenze - Novinkyalbum review