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Between a Heart and a Rock Place

by Pat Benatar

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For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares

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Jul 30, 2010

Mahlon rated it

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Pat Benatar is one of Rock's iconic female artists, but her road to the top was never easy. In her new autobiography, she opens up about the obstacles she faced and the roadblocks people put in her way. Benatar relates the constant battles she waged against the sexism that was rampant in the industry, and how she had to fight for creative control of her music, all while trying to balance the schedule of a constantly touring musician with a marriage and motherhood. It helped that Pat's husband gu...more

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Jan 29, 2012

Leah rated it

I think Pat Benatar is a rad lady and I've been looking forward to this one. I'm hoping that I'll come away from it thinking she's even radder than I already do. I'm only 20 pages in, so maybe it's too soon to say but so far it's kind of boring. It seems she's pretty much always had her head screwed on, had a good childhood, never abused substances...where will the drama come from?

UPDATE: Finished. Some of the writing was weak, some of it heavy-handed and hackneyed. For example, on 9/...more

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Sep 14, 2011

Lennie rated it

In this memoir, Pat Benatar describes her 31-year career in the music industry. As part of the eighties rock movement she made strides for women by being one of the first solo female rockers. She had pure, clean vocals but her music was intense, hard-edged and guitar-driven which made the sound seem like it had attitude and aggression. It was pretty powerful and as a result she won four Grammys and sold millions of records. While this book addresses Benatar’s achievements as a professional s...more

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May 09, 2011

Nicole rated it

This was a pretty well written rock autobiography, but when they do a "Behind the Music" on Pat Benatar, the only real drama will come in recounting her brave struggle against extreme dullness. I wouldn't say that the book was boring, or even that Pat Benatar's rise to fame was boring. But she seems to have set out deliberately to be the worlds' most boring rock star. No drugs, still married to the same guy for 30 years, two kids...I think I was hoping for a little more rock 'n' roll r...more

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Oct 10, 2010

Maria rated it

What I Can Tell You: I have been a Pat Benatar fan from 1979's In The Heat of The Night her very first album. As someone who always loved female vocalists, Dolly Parton, Steve Nicks, Dusty Springfield, Helen Reddy, Karen Carpenter when I heard Pat, she was so different from my favorite albums. I thought that is Rock and Roll!

This book is great for the fan of this elusive singer. In the 70 and 80s celebrities weren't chased around by the papproazzi or interviewed like we have now. We...moreWhat I Can Tell You: I have been a Pat Benatar fan from 1979's In The Heat of The Night her very first album. As someone who always loved female vocalists, Dolly Parton, Steve Nicks, Dusty Springfield, Helen Reddy, Karen Carpenter when I heard Pat, she was so different from my favorite albums. I thought that is Rock and Roll!

This book is great for the fan of this elusive singer. In the 70 and 80s celebrities weren't chased around by the papproazzi or interviewed like we have now. We heard them on the radio, saw them on a random TV show but we didn't know much about them. They were beautiful and we wanted to be like them but knew nothing about them. It was a much easier time to be a celebrity I'm sure but they weren't raking in the dough like even the non-celebrities of today (Snooki, Kim K, Paris).

We learn how she got her last name, it is not her husband of 30's (father of her daughters) Spyder. It is her high school sweethearts, first husband who returned from Vietnam with Post Traumatic Stress, the reason she didn't attend a Julliard audition, last name.

This isn't your typical rock star, band book. Pat has never been in rehab. Her marriage to her husband is still strong and she never posed nude to sell an album.

The story she tells is very unrock and roll and that is how she likes it. She was a slave to her record label, fought back against the sexism that was thrown at her. Was not allowed to talk about her children because that wasn't considered very rock n roll.

This is a love story. Pat has been in love with Spyder since she met him and it took them years to find their way to each other. She credits him with who she is and how far she has gotten.

Oddly enough, I had no idea this book was out until I saw it in the library on Thursday and have spent the past two weeks listening to Pat and referred to a teacher "you mean the one who looks like Pat Benatar" the other day. It is kismet that I found the book in the new release section of my library last week (it was released in June 2010).

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Aug 02, 2010

Ben Montgomery rated it

In the early days of MTV, I have to admit that I fell for the gimmicky marketing ploys of the cable juggernaut. Like other young teenagers with evolving hormones, I was enamored with Pat Benatar - both as a musician and as a hot mama who knew how to rock.

Years later, Pat has penned a autobiography that discusses her travails as a pioneer for women rockers. Pat does discuss alot of those battles with her label, MTV, and her management about how much is enough when marketing sex. Bu...more

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Jun 28, 2010

Derek Hale rated it

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this autobiography. Autobiographies of rock stars are extremely hit or miss. This one was surprisingly more hit than miss.

I really appreciated Benatar's continued admiration and praise of her husband Neil Giraldo (she calls him Spyder throughout the book). She freely gives him credit for elevating her far beyond where should could ever have gotten on her own and their 31+ year marriage is extreme rarity in their chosen profession.

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May 14, 2011

Marsha rated it

In New York, when I was in my twenties, in my college days, I loved going to comedy clubs. There was a club in Manhattan called “Catch a Rising Star.” Every Monday night they would present new acts, mostly singers and comics. One night when I was at “Catch a Rising Star,” I watched this young woman perform some songs. She would belt out her voice as if she were an opera singer. She was very attractive, thin, and appeared tall and sure of herself. She owned that stage. And so I went back on...moreIn New York, when I was in my twenties, in my college days, I loved going to comedy clubs. There was a club in Manhattan called “Catch a Rising Star.” Every Monday night they would present new acts, mostly singers and comics. One night when I was at “Catch a Rising Star,” I watched this young woman perform some songs. She would belt out her voice as if she were an opera singer. She was very attractive, thin, and appeared tall and sure of herself. She owned that stage. And so I went back on other Monday nights to hear her again and again. When I found out that she was going to perform at my community college, I told my friends that they must see this singer. There was definitely something about her. Several of my friends showed up, but not too many others. After the show, I went up to the performer. I stood next to her and was surprised to see that she was actually quite tiny and short. I told her that I enjoyed her singing. She told me that she was disappointed by the small attendance and there was this fact that my school spelled her name wrong on their bulletin board posting. I told her that this was nothing. She was going to be big someday, that in the long run this doesn’t mean a thing.

Maybe another year or two passed before I got to see Pat Benatar again and in concert. Her entire style had changed and she had hit singles. She was singing strong tough rock songs and I knew that I’d never get my opportunity to stand next to her again.

In the late 1990s, she performed at a small club in Palo Alto, California. As I was living in California at this time, I went to see her show. She was a middle-aged woman now, married with children. Most of the fans attending this show were in their forties and fifties, and she still sounded great. I still couldn’t get close to her but I was close enough and loved listening to her just as much as I had in the late 1970s and1980s.

In her book, Pat Benatar talks about what it was like being a woman singer in a man’s world. She talks about the meeting of her husband Neil Giraldo who was initially hired as her guitar player, who she eventually had a relationship with, married and had two healthy beautiful daughters, Haley and Hana. Pat Benatar is one of those unique celebrities who has always had her head on her shoulders, and made good decisions. She’s ambitious, talented, and as strong as the songs she sings.

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Jul 01, 2010

Giovanni Gelati rated it

Once I saw that this was going to be released I had to read it; I made this be my non- fiction novel for the month. I must admit to being a big fan ( I am part of the Benatar Fan Club) and collecting all the cassettes (Just to give you an idea of prices at that time, I think a Slurpee with the collector cups cost $.25). Getting that out of the way, the first thing I did when I cracked the book open was go to the picture area in the middle, I love that part of the non-fiction books. Then I read ...moreOnce I saw that this was going to be released I had to read it; I made this be my non- fiction novel for the month. I must admit to being a big fan ( I am part of the Benatar Fan Club) and collecting all the cassettes (Just to give you an idea of prices at that time, I think a Slurpee with the collector cups cost $.25). Getting that out of the way, the first thing I did when I cracked the book open was go to the picture area in the middle, I love that part of the non-fiction books. Then I read the cover of the book, here are some stats on Benatar’s accomplishments: Four Grammy Awards and more than twenty three million records sold, nineteen Top 40 singles. Not too shabby.
The novel itself is very insightful and it doesn’t seem if she holds much back. Patsi Bale Cox gets credited with the assist on the novel and the manner in which she narrates her life story is very smooth, clean and provocative. She was and is a force in rock and roll. I thoroughly enjoyed the way she described meeting her husband and partner Neil “ Spider” Giraldo. The connection and the music that they made are amazing. Having seen them in concert recently (I took my wife as an anniversary present), I was totally fascinated at the dynamic the two shared, and the way she describes their relationship only validated what we had witnessed. It was a total partnership and something to see and enjoy. Personally I have always maintained his influence in pop music since they hit the scene. His guitar playing and style are heard today. The novel for me was just not something that gave me insight into one of my favorite musicians but a validation of why I enjoyed them so much. They were and are much more than the music. When the lights go down they have substance and depth, not the shallowness we see in some of our alleged stars.
Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a great title. I was a little thrown off by it at first but it makes much more sense once you go through it. Fortunately now I have the music on my iPod , my cassettes are gone, but the music is timeless. Seeing these partners in concerts is nothing short of awesome. Pat Benatar can still bring it, and Neil Giraldo’s guitar play is as moving as ever. We saw them the last time they were in Red Bank, New Jersey and she said the fans were crazier now than when they were at their height. I was not one of the nuts trying to crash the stage; I had a great view and was content to enjoy and take in every minute of it, just like I did this novel. What is your favorite Benatar hit?
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May 08, 2011

jess rated it

Shelves: 2011, ladyish

Note: I read this book in tandem with an audio book of Ricky Martin's memoir, Me. Fascinating, unintentional pair. I recommend this pairing for two "Other" perspectives on the commercial music industry.

Things I learned from this book:

Pat Benatar's music label steamrolled her over and over again until her contract expired, forcing albums from her every 9 months, demanding constant touring, micromanaging her image, her romantic relationships, her creative p...moreNote: I read this book in tandem with an audio book of Ricky Martin's memoir, Me. Fascinating, unintentional pair. I recommend this pairing for two "Other" perspectives on the commercial music industry.

Things I learned from this book:

Pat Benatar's music label steamrolled her over and over again until her contract expired, forcing albums from her every 9 months, demanding constant touring, micromanaging her image, her romantic relationships, her creative process, and denying her a fair share of the money made on her millions of records. Pat strongly identifies her music as a product of her band, with a lot of credit going to her husband/guitarist, Spyder. When speaking about creative decisions, like almost every song/album/recording/tour, she uses, "we" to refer to the band, not "I" like a solo artist. The image of her as a solo artist is a product of her label's manipulation. Also, her label cheapened her body of work by releasing "best of" comps every year after her contract expired. They owned the music & she had no say. The relationship between PB and her label/management kind of reads like a "what not to do" for a young female artist in the 80s.

Her music video, "You Better Run" was the second video ever shown on MTV. She wore her own clothes, as she usually did. The director was a prick, and she was angry during the whole shoot. That snarl is sincere.

Pat Benatar is a classically trained vocalist, which explains a lot about her music, but she claims that she cannot dance for the life of her. This came as quite a surprise to me. I have spent literally incalculable hours of my life dancing to her music, never mind the time I have spent perfecting her shoulder shimmy dance in the video for Love is a Battlefield. But, knowing this fact now, I have re-watched a lot of her videos and it does seem pretty obvious that fancy footwork is not her forte.

Pat is an outspoken, unabashed, unashamed feminist & has identified as a feminist for her entire life. This isn't really a surprise, considering her body of work and the groundbreaking trajectory of her career, but it is interesting to read her detailing 30+ years of sexism in the music industry, especially when she calls out specific men by name and lists dates that they treated her in an inappropriate manner. But this isn't just about airing dirty laundry - she also provides a thoughtful analysis of why things were the way they were, and how they have changed (a little, but not much). Her career spans from a time when the career advice she got was was "just act sexy" and her music label forced her to hide her first pregnancy so her fans would still think she was sexy, all the way up to her work with her own record label, inspired by Ani DiFranco (really?) and her dates on the Lilith Fair tour.

Pat Benatar really, really loves being a mom and considers her motherhood to be a feminist act. She battled infertility & had to give up on the idea of having kids several times (only to become pregnant after she gave up... twice). She fought her record label tooth & nail for room to be a good, present mother to her daughters.

Pat is really kind of a boring person - no drinking, no drugs, no smoking, no scandalous sexcapades. As a trained singer, she was always very protective of her voice, so she self-selected out of a lot of rockstar behavior. She has also been with the same dude for over thirty years. They're married. They have two kids. She seems like a pretty stable, with-it lady for someone who has so many grammys and millions of records sold. So this book avoids a lot of gossipy, trashy stories by virtue of her relative boringness, but I enjoyed it.

The weirdest, most awkward part was about the show she played the night of September 11, 2001. She struggled with the set list. So many of her songs employ violent/war imagery and she felt it was inappropriate to sing Love is a Battlefield or Hit Me with Your Best Shot. She ended up playing things like All Fired Up and Invincible. She says that she & the audience wept together, and it was therapeutic for all of them. I feel weird that she used Invincible in this context, but I remember the shocked emotions we all struggled with that evening, and maybe it was just a cathartic thing, not a 'Murrica the Great thing. Of course, she did have that whole post-9/11 "Christmas in America" thing.... She's a pop star. Let's move along.

Finally, and perhaps of the most personal importance to me, I learned that Pat Benatar recorded a song called Papa's Roses about Katherine Dunn's book Geek Love, which happens to be my favorite book. The intersection of these two magical forces is my dream come true, even if the song itself is a little emo.(less)

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Mar 09, 2011

Jean rated it

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This memoir was a fast and intriguing read. I've been on a female rock memoir kick. Pat Benatar presents a lucid story about her musical career and the trials she had to deal with as someone trying to find their way, themselves and dealing with sexism without being heavy handed. You do feel as if she is telling you what she thinks.

It is really eye opening how the music industry is great at manipulating their artists yet is it really for the commercial success that they supposedly s...more

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Feb 22, 2011

Itsjustme-wendy rated it

I grew up listening to Pat Benatar. Her first single (Heartbreaker) was out before I finished High school. I bought my first Pat Benatar Album (Crimes of Passion) when I was just 19! I played it so much I am surprised the needle on my stereo didn't wear through to the other side. I knew all the words to all the songs (probably still do). I am proud to say, I still own that Album!

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Mar 04, 2011

Dan C. rated it

Shelves: read-in-2011

I'm a sucker for a celebrity biography, especially a celebrity autobiography. When I was in the 9th grade, I checked Joan Collins' memoir, Past Imperfect, out of the library and that basically started me down that road and there's been no looking back. So last summer when both Belinda Carlisle AND Pat Benatar released memoirs, I figured I must have died and gone to heaven. Two of the 80s leading female singers telling their stories of navigating the music business during the time of my adolescen...moreI'm a sucker for a celebrity biography, especially a celebrity autobiography. When I was in the 9th grade, I checked Joan Collins' memoir, Past Imperfect, out of the library and that basically started me down that road and there's been no looking back. So last summer when both Belinda Carlisle AND Pat Benatar released memoirs, I figured I must have died and gone to heaven. Two of the 80s leading female singers telling their stories of navigating the music business during the time of my adolescence was too hard to resist. Being a bigger Belinda Carlisle fan than I am a Pat Benatar fan, I read Belinda's book last year. After having read Benatar's memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place, I have to say that while I'm a bigger fan of Belinda's music, I have about a thousand percent more respect for Benatar.

Pat Benatar's - which, if you can believe it, is her actual name (Benatar is the last name of her first husband) - hit making career is bookended neatly by the 80s. While she's had output since the dawn of the 90s, none of it has approached the success that she had during the early days of MTV. Benatar tells a great story, starting with her days back at Catch a Rising Star in Manhattan to getting signed by Chrysalis Records and spinning out hit after hit for them throughout the 80s. She was truly one of the hardest working people in the music business, and so much of it was not by choice. Her contract with Chrysalis pretty much had her in indentured servitude. Due to a clause in her contract, the record company could demand a new album whenever they wanted and if she didn't comply, they had the right to withhold all payment to her until she did. Because of this, throughout the 80s, she was either in the studio or on tour.

She put out eight albums (and one live album) in nine years and it wasn't until the release of 1988's Wide Awake in Dreamland that her luck started to turn. The crowds weren't showing up and the album was not promoted well, mostly due to the disintegration of the label. Ironically enough, Wide Awake in Dreamland is the only of Benatar's studio albums that I actually own. I don't care what you say, "All Fired Up" is a classic Pat Benatar song.

I said to my wife that it was kind of amazing that Benatar was able to craft such an engaging book from her life, beings that most celebrity memoirs rest on multiple trips to rehab and partying late into the night. She did none of this. No drugs, no trips to rehab, no affairs or any of that stuff. She has been happily married to her husband, Neil Giraldo, for 31 years now which is such a rarity in the world of celebrity. Now in her late 50s, Benatar seems grounded and well adjusted and happy with life. See, celebrities really are not all that different from us after all.

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Nov 18, 2010

Deena rated it

Shelves: autobiography-biography, women-s-issues

My introduction to rock and roll came when I first listened to Crimes of Passion. I wasn't as into the sounds of guitar at the time so I didn't really appreciate the genius of Neil Giraldo, but as a singer myself I was blown away by her voice. I also credit Benatar with some of my feminist awakenings. I mean, the album starts out with the song "Treat Me Right." I had never heard songs from women that were so powerful and self-confident. I never did (and still don't) like songs where wo...more

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Jun 19, 2010

Jeff rated it

In the interest of full disclosure I have to admit that I am a huge fan of Pat Benatar. I've been to dozens of her concerts, I have all her albums (some in LP and CD format), I have all of her videos and many old interviews and performances on tape or on DVD. I have even met her (and she and Neil are really as nice and down to earth as they come across in the book). Suffice to say that I have waited for this book for a long time.

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Sep 07, 2010

Delilah rated it

My copy is signed by Pat Benatar herself. I went to the book signing at Borders and at least 200 people were in line. It is a great story about how two talented, working class people made it big in the music industry and what it took to get things on their own terms. Being a woman in rock was a lot more difficult in the late 70s and early 80s than today. Record label people are greedy creeps, as was shown through their experience at Chrysalis records. They really exploit artists through contract...more

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Jan 04, 2011

Kevin rated it

This was an interesting look at Benatar's career. Unfortunately, it was at a very high level emotionally. It's clear she didn't want to expose too much of her inner self in the book. That's certainly her right, but it doesn't make for a great biography. I will say that this is a good how-to for how to be famous and not lose yourself.

The other flaw is that she never seemed to be wrong - except once or twice with her husband. Maybe she just doesn't like making herself too vulnerable o...more

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Oct 27, 2011

Robert Grant rated it

Pat Benatar has long been one of my favorite artists and this memoir only makes her shine brighter in my eyes. She fought her battles with grace and dignity and stands as one of the greatest rock and roll artists in history-she deserves her place as one of the best and history will show how truly ground breaking this artist was and continues to be. There never was any hint of scandal connected to this well grounded artist in her entire career and the young women of today's music scene could lea...more

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Dec 17, 2010

Penni Pappas rated it

I bought this bio because Pat kept plugging it at the live show saying it will tell you about the old days of rock'n'roll. Did not live up to the promise. The only time Pat chucked while singing was because she was up the duff. Not quite the rock'n'roll bio she promised on stage, not rock'n'roll at all. And she tried to sell me online vitamins in the book - times are tough when the first record company you signed with owns the rights to all your songs and you wrote none of them. The one star I d...more

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Aug 17, 2010

Paige rated it

Don't really remember much of my teen-age years that didn't have Pat Benatar's music playing somewhere in the background. So when I saw that this was coming out, I was like, oh heck yeah, I'll read that! Happy to admit, I'm a fan. She talks about her early days in the music business and the harassment she fought against back when there where far fewer female artists. Explains how some of her biggest songs came to be, winning grammy awards (repeately) and somehow managing to achieve her own dream...more

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Jan 15, 2012

Sonja Isaacson rated it

I feel like she spent too great a portion of the book writing about Chrysalis. Yes, she had a lot of issues but really? Griping with your company isn't what you do 24/7. Aren't there more anecdotes from being on the road? And as soon as she wrote about being at the Mall of America in the 80s I got grumpy... being that it didn't open til the mid 90s... So either she's remembering the wrong kid or the wrong place. So I dunno. If the reader wants to be in the music industry I suppose this wou...more

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Sep 02, 2011

Trak rated it

Shelves: 2011, auto-biography, biography, non-fiction

If you are looking to Pat Benatar to spill the inside dirt on all things evil about the music industry this is not that book.
What Pat does is give a chronology of her life, her career and the three loves of her life, music, family and Neil.
Parts of the book are riveting and quite insightful. Other parts are Pat showing what a well balanced and rounded person she is. What you have is a woman who is content with her life, content with her career, is happy and satisfied with all thing...more

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May 29, 2011

Doug rated it

Reading Between a Heart and a Rock Place was a lot of fun. It was definitely a read-a-lot-of-excerpts-to-my-wonderful-and-tolerant-wife book. Benatar's career trajectory is kinda unusual in rock'n'roll, given that it doesn't involve a trip to rehab (or its conspicuous lack). It's sadly more typical in that one defining characteristic of that career is ongoing disputes with her label, very much aggravated in her case by her identity as a female rocker in an era when women had much less presence i...more

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Dec 26, 2010

Juliette rated it

Shelves: memoirs

Is it just me, or does the cover photo of this book bear a striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie's December 2010 Vogue cover? Such bone structure!
I really enjoyed reading about Pat Benatar's career and life. I never realized that she is such a passionate artist and a smart businesswoman. Her love for her husband/guitarist/producer Neil "Spyder" Giraldo and their successful navigation of the music industry is admirable and sweet. I found it refreshing to read about a successful ...more

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Sep 10, 2010

Patrick rated it

I grew up listening to Pat Benatar. She's in fine voice (ha!) here, and because she's one of the few rockers who also has a plausible claim to being a role model, I'm glad she wrote a memoir. Benatar's love for her husband, her passion for music, and her feminist convictions all shine from these honest, well-written pages.

This memoir is better than Clarence Clemmons' "Big Man," because Benatar and her co-author are more disciplined than Clemmons and his co-author were. Ben...more

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Jan 08, 2011

Robin Warden rated it

Love Pat,but not the book. Time would have been better spent listening to her amazing catalog of music. On a positive note (and my humble opinion)the fact that this book was not very interesting can be attributed to the fact that she never got all caught up in the music-making machine of celebrity, she wasn't a party girl, but instead she put out consistently great music while maintaining her priorities of her marriage, kids, and family above all else. So I like her even more knowing that.

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Sep 12, 2011

Shawna rated it

Shelves: nonfiction

I love Pat. What girl who was in high school in the 80's doesn't? She's sweet, and kind, and not a scandalous party girl, and I appreciate that. She seems like a great role model for her kids, and for girls everywhere.

My problem with this book is that Pat isn't very good at telling a story. The book is about as interesting as a grocery list and NOT because she's got no scandal. She's had a tough time of things in the music business, and she's not cutthroat. She's someone you'd wa...more

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Feb 11, 2011

Christina rated it

Now I want to buy Pat Benatar's albums after reading this memoir. She is a Capricorn and down-to-earth considering she's a rock star who won multiple Grammys. An honest, intimate look at her trials and triumphs working as a girl in the boy's club of record companies. She has two daughters by the way. I will buy one of her CDs or download it from Amazon. Trust me: after you read this book you'll want to listen to the music of your youth all over again.

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Jul 28, 2010

Greg rated it

Shelves: non-fiction

Enjoyed much of Pat Benatar's story of struggling as a female rocker in a man's world. The most memorable part for me was her experience having to go out and perform the evening of 9/11 - she strongly resisted performing a show that night, but instead it turned out to be an amazing bonding experience with her audience, as they all felt the need to be together with others. Just imagine the feel in the audience that night when she sang "Invincible." Pretty cool. She's obviously a musicia...more

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Aug 06, 2010

Colleen rated it

Recommends it for: I would highly recommend this book to anyone hoping to make it in the entertainment business.

Shelves: biography, non-fiction

A very inspiring biography from one of my favorite performers. Benatar manages to bring the reader behind the scenes of the music industry from the 1970's through the present from the unique standpoint of one of the biggest female rockers of all time. Her take no prisoners attitude toward achieving her dream despite being a woman in a boys club is nicely balanced by the simultaneous love story with her guitarist/music partner (and later husband) Neil "Spyder" Giraldo.

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“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.” — 12 people liked it

“The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.” — 2 people liked it

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