By the end of the 70s, you could count the number of solo female artists on one hand. Leading the charge into the new decade was Pat Benatar.\u00a0 As one of the few female rock pioneers, Pat was intent on making the world of rock more accessible for her gender.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
She couldn\u2019t have gotten started on a better note that she did on her debut release, In The Heat Of The Night<\/i>. <\/p>\n
This album would serve as the blueprint for all female rock musicians to come and ensure a long career for Benatar. Those sexist male executives in the music industry must not have known what hit them. \u201cHit Me With Your Best Shot,\u201d indeed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The first thing you notice about Benatar\u2019s voice is its texture and its tendency to break. She has an impressive vocal range that is on full display on power ballads like \u201cMy Clone Sleeps Alone\u201d and the title track, which is the perfect song for life in the big city. I particularly like it when Pat changes it up and sings in a challenging upper register, as she does on the album\u2019s best moments, \u201cWe Live For Love\u201d and \u201cHeartbreaker.\u201d The all-important 70s vehicle K-Tel wisely chose both hit songs for inclusion on their memorable Rock 80 <\/i>compilation. Ah, those were the days\u2026 <\/p>\n
Hit songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman provided three tracks for In The Heat Of The Night<\/i>, and all of them are winners. The best of the bunch is \u201cNo You Don\u2019t,\u201d where Pat really gets a chance to rock it out. Along with Peter Coleman, Mike Chapman was also chosen to produce this great album. 70s stalwarts Nick Gilder and Alan Parsons get in on the action with their respective contributions, \u201cRated X\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Let It Show,\u201d though neither was chosen as a single. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s even an early John Cougar Mellencamp composition to be found in the mix entitled \u201cI Need A Lover,\u201d which garnered some limited radio airplay when this album was first released. When it comes to writing her own material, Pat tentatively makes the attempt with the aforementioned \u201cMy Clone Sleeps Alone\u201d and the closing tune, \u201cSo Sincere.\u201d <\/p>\n
With such professional assistance, there was no way to stop this album from becoming a hit or keep Pat Benatar from becoming a star. The heavens were perfectly aligned and the assemblage of incredible talent speaks for itself. Eventually, Pat would have romantic designs on her guitarist, Neil Geraldo, and in joining forces they would prove to be an unbeatable team when it came to crafting one hit album after another. Their subsequent marriage and business partnership would continue on right up to the present, with both of them co-headlining several tours together. This is where it started, though, and it’s well worth the effort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5968],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40589","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pat-benatar","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40589"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40589"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}