Description

Cover and vinyl is vg+

Swedish 1979 pressing

Pat Benatar’s debut album, In The Heat Of The Night, was a fierce statement of purpose for an artist who had singing rock music for a short time. As a young girl, she trained for a career in opera and later performed in theater productions in NYC. While these experiences might seem dissimilar, Pat was able to distill these influences into a vocal style that was stunning for a rock audience to behold. Right from this auspicious start, many fans regarded her vocal prowess as virtuoso level within this genre of music. Even though only 30 percent of the track on her debut was written by Benatar and her band it was still strong and stylish ans set a stylistic template for at least her first three recordings. The opening track Heartbreaker was a furious track that immiedately solidified her place in a class of women who were taking the rock world by storm in the late 70s, there were only a few notable women performing hard rock at the time (most notably Heart), but few were of Benatar’s caliber. So Heartbreaker was truly the song that helped Benatar kick down the door for herself and many other female hard rockers to follow but the remainder of the album packs enough grit and solid songwriting that it remains an impressive debut and foreshadows a glimpse of great things to come. It certainly announced her arrival.

Track list:
1. Heartbreaker
2. I Need A Lover
3. If You Think You Know How To Love Me
4. In The Heat Of The Night
5. My Clone Sleeps Alone
6. We Live For Love
7. Rated X
8. Don’t Let It Show
9. No You Don’t
10. So Sincere