Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar emerged at the dawn of the 1980s with a sound that mixed the soaring power chords of arena rock with a combination of tough grit and mainstream pop sense. Songs like 1979's "Heartbreaker" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," from her acclaimed sophomore album Crimes of Passion, made her an international star ahead of 1981's chart-topping Precious Time. During the front half of the decade, Benatar became an icon of the early MTV era, earning four Grammy Awards and stringing together a series of gritty pop anthems like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "We Belong," major hits that remain motivational classics and staples of classic rock radio. After 1985's "Invincible," her popularity began to falter somewhat and her output subsequently fell off during the '90s. After 2003's Go, Benatar entered a recording hiatus that was eventually broken by a handful of stand-alone singles at the end of the 2010s. She also published a memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place.

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