Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar, und Patty Smyth

Pat Benetar is a rock legend. She and Neil Giraldo still put on a great show, three dozen years after they started. Pat's voice is still in good shape, and both she and Neil tell the history of their songs through the course of the night.

Among the series of hits they played were (not in order):

Invincible
Promises In the Dark
Hell is for Children
We Belong
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Love Is a Battlefield

As you get toward the end of the night, there's more of a sing-along than a concert, but that's not their fault. :-)

I'd recommend the show to any fan of her music -- so many hits, delivered with the power of a legend.

Back in the eighties, there was a market for music that struck a balance between rock and pop, especially in terms of female performers; for those who found Joan Jett a bit much and Kim Wilde a little too soft, Pat Benatar - Patricia Mae Andrzejewski, to give her her birth name - was there to fill the gap. The sheer scale of her commercial viability, too, was proven beyond doubt by no fewer than five platinum records throughout that decade; they spawned some hit singles, too, in the shape of the likes of ‘Hit Me with Your Best Shot’, ‘Love Is a Battlefield’ and ‘Invincible’. Perhaps more impressive still, though, is the fact that Benatar - now sixty-one - has never stopped touring, lining up dates almost every year since she began her career. That continues to this day, with her most recent shows - in celebration of thirty-five years in the business - seeing her play with Cheap Trick and Rick Springfield. It’s been some years, though, since she brought her irrepressibly-energetic band over the pond to the UK; perhaps she doesn’t have the same kind of following over here, but for now, British fans are likely going to have to make do with extensive YouTube footage of recent shows - if she does make it over, expect it to be as part of an all-star eighties lineup in big venues rather than out and out solo gigs.