Pat Benetar – “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”, “I Need A Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me”, “Heartbreaker”, “Love Is A Battlefield” and “We Belong”

Pat Benetar had her breakthrough right at the end of the Seventies, with a string of singles from her October 1979 album “In The Heat Of The Night”, particularly “I Need a Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me” and “Heartbreaker”, the latter reaching No. 23 in the U.S.

So she’s “only just” a Seventies artist, but who cares…

Especially with songs like these.

“I Need A Lover”:

“If You Think You Know How to Love Me”:

“Heartbreaker”:

Shortly after that, with her second album “Crimes Of Passion”, came her signature song, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”:

One of the biggest hits of Pat Benetar’s career was “Love Is A Battlefield”. I particularly remember this one (albeit we were now in the Eighties, not the Seventies any more), because a dance band I was working for as a roadie in South Germany had a female singer who sang the song a lot.

Here’s the orignal of “Love Is A Battlefield”:

And not much later came another smash hit, “We Belong”:

Pat Benetar was the first female artist featured on MTV and is one of the top-selling female artists overall.

Doesn’t take much to work out why…

Paul

Tags: Crimes Of Passion, Heartbreaker, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, I Need a Lover, If You Think You Know How to Love Me, In The Heat Of The Night, Love Is A Battlefield, MTV, Music of the Seventies, Pat Benetar, We Belong

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