Why LEGEND Says She Will NEVER SING This 80s Classic EVER Again | Professor of Rock

Pat Benatar has something of an adversarial relationship with one of her biggest songs… the Top Ten 10 hit “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” It broke her career wide open. There’s a few reasons for this, but ultimately, even though she made it famous, it wasn’t her song to begin with. That distinction goes to a struggling songwriter who wrote it after punching pillows in a new age therapy session. Yeah, you can’t make this stuff up. Even though Pat doesn’t care for it, there’s no doubt that generations of fans haven’t been able to get enough of it. It’s an 80s classic rock radio staple for sure, oozing confidence and bravado, putting Pat Benatar forward as the 80s premier female rocker that would be followed by plenty of great hits like Love Is a Battlefield and We Belong.

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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support, or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes, we have covered Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, and Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider.

Today we are telling the story of the Top Ten rock smash ‘Hit Me with Your Best Shot’ from Pat Benatar’s 1980 sophomore LP Crimes of Passion. Pat Benatar was born Patricia Andrzejewski on 10 January 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Lindenhurst on Long Island, New York. Something that definitely influenced her image later on as a recording artist. Pat’s mother was actually a former opera singer and took the opportunity to train Pat in the art of opera singing growing up. However, by the time she was a teen, Pat discovered rock and roll. She became a fan of bands like Led Zeppelin and began to drift away from her operatic upbringing. Pat soon turned her attention to the Beatles, the Stones, Motown, and R&B.

At 19 Pat married her high school boyfriend Denis Benatar. After he was drafted into the army the couple relocated to Virginia, where Pat worked any music-related job she could find, including a gig as a singing waitress in a roaring twenties restaurant. She sang everything from cabaret and R&B to contemporary songs, and everywhere from nightclubs to hotel lounges. She went from being secretary to selling out arenas, so she paid her dues. In 1975 the couple moved back to New York, but their marriage was failing. Pat soon filed for divorce, but kept the last name Benatar for her professional persona. On her own, she took whatever singing jobs she could find to pay the bills.