#LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD PLUS#

Pat also showed off some pretty cool dance moves in this partially-choreographed video, which was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video. and Switzerland.ДЇrom theВ back of the bus in the вЂњLove Is The BattlefieldвЂќ video.ДЄ special remix was used for the popular music video, which features Pat as a teenager running away from her family, Pat exploring the fast life in the big city, becoming a dancer, her father eventually showing regret for things he said that drove her away, and through all of this, she ends up discovering strength and independence, and the incredible undeniability of girl power.

#LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD PLUS#

1 in Belgium, plus Top 10 rankings in Canada, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand, and the Top 20 in the U.K. 1 in Holland and BILLBOARDвЂ™s Mainstream Rock chart, two weeks at No. With 1985вЂ™s вЂњWe Belong,вЂќ it remains her highest-charting American hit so far, and gave Pat her fourth consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.ДЄround the globe, there was a lot of love for вЂњLove Is A Battlefield.вЂќ It spent five weeks at No. It stayed on the Hot 100 until the second half of February 1984 and one of BILLBOARDвЂ™s biggest Hot 100 hits of 1984. Like most Pat Benatar singles, вЂњLove Is A BattlefieldвЂќ made a steady climb up the chart and spent a week at No. In a chart coincidence that only a singles chart nerd like myself could love, вЂњLove Is A BattlefieldвЂќ also debuted in the Top 40 the same week as Eurythmics debuted with вЂњLove Is A Stranger.вЂќ In just four weeks, вЂњLove Is A BattlefieldвЂќ debuted in the Top 40, giving Pat her tenth Top 40 American hit. вЂњLove Is A BattlefieldвЂќ was released a month in advance of LIVE FROM EARTH, and only took 12 days to reach the BILLBOARD Hot 100, debuting at No. I can say that Holly Knight (a member of the short-lived Dance / Rock band, Device) also wrote and/or co-wrote three other Pat Benatar songs, including 1985вЂ™s вЂњInvincible (The Theme From THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN).вЂќДЇrom the back of the LIVE FROM EARTH album. PatвЂ™s fifth release, a mostly-live album called LIVE FROM EARTH, was released in mid-October 1983, and contained two new studio tracks, вЂњLipstick LiesвЂќ and вЂњLove Is A Battlefield,вЂќ the latter of which was written by popular songwriters Mike Chapman and Holly Knight, who have written a combined amount of huge songs that would require their own entire blog post, which I may write one day. She had also nine out of 10 singles reach the Top 40 of the BILLBOARD Hot 100, including one Top 10 hit, вЂњHit Me With Your Best Shot,вЂќ which reached No. 2 album вЂ“ her biggest album to date, 1980вЂ™s CRIMES OF PASSION, which has been certified (at least) 4x Multi-Platinum.

1 album вЂ“ 1981вЂ™s PRECIOUS TIME вЂ“ and a No. Neil and Pat, having fun on the road and hopefully in my view this SummerвЂ¦Д«y late 1983, the then-30-year-old from Brooklyn, NYC already had released four hugely successful albums, including a No.

(This year, Mom Nature is playing her own April FoolвЂ™s Joke on us, with several inches of snow predicted the first day of April.) IвЂ™m so glad Pat and Neil have picked to return to PortlandвЂ™s Maine State Pier in late July, when вЂ“ theoretically вЂ“ itвЂ™ll be an awesome Summer (like 2016!). I love Maine but not its Winters, and always hope they wonвЂ™t last more than their calendared three months. The Winter of 2014-2015 was what I classified as вЂњThe Winter That Would Never End,вЂќ in that it snowed on November 1, 2014, and snowed in six consecutive months, through April 2015. I wasnвЂ™t at that show, but from what I heard, it was incredibly cold (we were barely out of our longer-than-usual Winter that year) and I feared Pat wouldnвЂ™t be back to Maine again.

In 2015, I believe they had the distinction of being the first performers at the Maine State Pier, performing in early May 2015. This week, I found out that Pat and her long-time husband and guitarist, Neil Giraldo, will be performing at PortlandвЂ™s Maine State Pier for the second time in three years. But, oddly enough, as much as I have loved Pat Benatar and her music for almost 40 years, I have never seen her perform live. I own several of her albums, and yes, 12вЂќ singles too (hey вЂ“ almost everybody did remixes back in the 80s!). I have been a fan of Pat Benatar since the first time I heard вЂњHeartbreakerвЂќ in late 1979.

Love is a battlefield