On July 22, 2022, Benatar announced that she would stop performing “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” on her current tour “in deference to the victims of the families of these [recent] mass shootings”.
In 2020, Benatar was co-nominated with her husband for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside fifteen other artists but despite coming in second in the fan vote was not among the inductees. She and Giraldo were co-nominated for a second time in 2022. On May 4,…
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In January 2017, Benatar recorded the song “Shine” to support the Women’s March on January 21, 2017, which was her first original non-holiday recording in over 10 years. That September, Benatar again teamed with songwriter and producer Linda Perry for the song “Dancing Through the Wreckage”, which was the lead…
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In November 2015, Benatar recorded and released a holiday song called “One December Night”.
Innamorata (US number 171) was released in 1997 on the CMC International record label. A single video was produced for “Strawberry Wine (Life is Sweet)”. According to SoundScan , the album sold close to 65,000 copies.
Benatar has released only one album of new material since 1997’s Innamorata , which is 2003’s Go (US number 187). The album included the 9/11 charity single “Christmas in America” as a bonus track. A video was produced for the single “Have It All”, but was never released until it…
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Gravity’s Rainbow was released in 1993 and was a return to the AOR genre. ” Everybody Lay Down ” was picked up by Album Rock radio and went all the way to number 3 on the Rock Tracks chart. The single was never released to Top 40/Contemporary Hit Radio and…
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True Love was a jump blues record, released in late April 1991, and featured the blues band Roomful of Blues , backing up Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, and Myron Grombacher. The album sold over 339,000 copies without significant radio airplay and limited exposure on VH-1. “Payin’ the Cost to Be…
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In July 1988, Benatar released her seventh album, Wide Awake in Dreamland , which generally improved on the success of Seven the Hard Way , such as peaking at number 11 in the UK and Canada, earning her eighth consecutive Platinum certified album in Canada, and number 13 in Australia.…
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In 1985, Benatar released her sixth album, Seven the Hard Way . She hit the US Top 10 (and number 4 on the US Rock Tracks chart) with the Grammy-nominated rock single ” Invincible ” (the theme from the movie The Legend of Billie Jean ), which was written by…
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