‘PAT
BENATAR: ULTIMATE COLLECTION’ TO BE RELEASED JUNE 24 BY CAPITOL/EMI
New
2-CD and Digital Collection Features 40 Classic Hits & Signature Songs, Including 20
Top 40 Chart Hits
Benatar
To Tour To More than 40 North American Cities This Summer
Hollywood,
California – May 13, 2008 –
Pat Benatar’s top hits and signature album cuts have been gathered for a new 2-CD and
digital release, Pat Benatar: Ultimate Collection,
to be released June 24 by Capitol/EMI. Among
the collection’s 40 tracks, totaling more than two hours of music, are 20 Top 40
chart hits, including “Heartbreaker,” “Love Is A Battlefield,” “Hit
Me With Your Best Shot,” “Fire And Ice,” “Invincible,” and “We
Belong.”
Benatar
will tour to more than 40 cities across North America this summer, performing her top hits
and fan favorites. The tour begins May 16 at
Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival in Richardson, TX and includes stops at Detroit’s
Rockin’ On The Riverfront festival and Milwaukee’s Summerfest, in addition to
headlining concerts in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and other cities in the U.S. and
Canada.
Pat Benatar first burst into international
music circles with her 1979 smash, “Heartbreaker.” When MTV began beaming into America’s living
rooms in 1980, the Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star” was the first
music video to be broadcast by the network. Benatar’s
hit cover of the Young Rascals’ “You Better Run” was the second. As she sang “We Belong,” the decade
belonged to Benatar, who took home an unprecedented four consecutive Grammy Awards for
Best Female Rock Performance and racked up six consecutive Platinum and three Gold RIAA
sales certifications for the nine albums she released between 1979 and 1989, selling tens
of millions of albums around the world.
The
diversity of Benatar’s fanbase today, a global audience encompassing baby boomers and
their Gen X and Gen Y descendents, reflects her music’s vast and enduring appeal. Her
strong yet vulnerable vocal missives, whether hurled or gently swept over her band’s
solid rock arrangements, sound as fresh and ‘now’ today as they did when they
were first recorded. Pat Benatar has inspired new generations of musicians as varied as
her audience, and her music is an essential entry in the American rock canon.
PAT
BENATAR: ULTIMATE COLLECTION (2-CD;
digital collection)
Disc
1
1. Heartbreaker
Pop
#23 / charted 12-22-79
2. I Need A Lover
3. In The Heat Of The Night
4. We Live For Love
Pop
#27 / charted 4-5-80
5.
Treat Me Right
Pop
#18 / charted 1-17-81; Rock #31 / charted 3-21-81
6.
You Better Run
Pop
#42 / charted 7-26-80
7.
Never Wanna Leave You
8.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Pop #9
/ charted 10-4-80
9.
Hell Is For Children
10.
Promises In The Dark
Pop #38 / charted
10-3-81; Rock #16 / charted 7-25-81
11.
Fire And Ice
Pop
#17 / charted 7-18-81; Rock #2 (4 weeks) / charted 7-18-81
12.
Just Like Me
Rock
#15 / charted 7-18-81
13.
It’s A Tuff Life
Rock
#32 / charted 7-25-81
14.
Precious Time
15.
Shadows Of The Night
Pop #13 / charted 10-16-82;
Rock #3 / charted 10-16-82
16.
Looking For A Stranger
Pop #39 / charted 4-23-83; Rock #4
/ charted 12-11-82
17.
Anxiety (Get Nervous)
18.
Little Too Late
Pop
#20 / charted 2-5-83; Rock #38 / charted 3-5-83
19.
The Victim
Rock
#23 / charted 12-18-82
20.
Lipstick Lies
21.
Love Is A Battlefield
Pop
#5 / charted 9-24-83; Rock #1 (4 weeks) / charted 10-1-83
Disc
2
1. Diamond Field
Rock
#20 / charted 12-8-84
2. We Belong
Pop
#5 / charted 10-27-84; Rock #3 / charted 10-27-84; Adult Contemporary # 34 / charted
11-17-84
3. Ooh Ooh Song
Pop
#36 / charted 1-19-85; Rock #22 / charted 1-19-85
4. The Outlaw Blues
5. Painted Dessert
6. Invincible (Theme From The Legend Of Billie Jean) Pop #10 / charted 7-6-85; Rock #4
/
charted
6-29-85
7. Sex As A Weapon
Pop
#28 / charted 11-23-85; Rock #5 / charted 11-23-85
8. Le Bel Age
Pop
#54 / charted 2-15-86; Rock #19 / charted 1-25-86
9. All Fired Up
Pop
#19 / charted 7-2-88; Rock #2 / charted 7-2-88
10.
Don’t Walk Away
Rock
#44 / charted 9-24-88
11.
One Love (Song Of The Lion)
12.
Let’s Stay Together
13.
Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss
Rock #17 / charted 4-6-91
14.
True Love
15.
I Feel Lucky
16.
The Good Life
17.
Everybody Lay Down
Rock #3 / charted
5-29-93
18.
Somebody’s Baby
19. Every Time I Fall Back (from the
TV series “The Young & The Restless”)
Billboard
chart positions © (2008) Billboard/Nielsen Business Media, Inc. All rights
reserved.
Pat
Benatar: Confirmed North American Tour Dates
Fri
05/16/08
Richardson, TX
Wildflower! Arts
& Music Festival
Sat
05/17/08
Houston, TX
Sam
Houston Race Park
Sun
05/18/08
San Antonio, TX San
Antonio Municipal Auditorium
Sun
06/22/08
Ashburn, VA
Belmont Country
Club
Tue
06/24/08
Baltimore, MD
Rams Head Live!
Thu
06/26/08
Niagara Falls, ON Fallsview Casino
Resort
Fri
06/27/08
Detroit, MI
Rockin'
On The Riverfront / Renaissance Center
Sat
06/28/08
Joliet, IL
Joliet
Memorial Stadium
Tue
07/01/08
Milwaukee, WI
Summerfest
Thu
07/03/08
Mableton, GA
Mable
House Barnes Amphitheatre
Fri
07/04/08
Biloxi, MS
Hard
Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi
Mon
07/07/08 Clearwater, FL
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Tue
07/08/08
Orlando, FL
Hard
Rock Cafe / Hard Rock Live
Fri
07/11/08
Norman, OK
Riverwind
Casino
Sat
07/12/08
Fayetteville, AR Arkansas
Music Pavilion (AMP)
Tue
07/15/08
Nashville, TN
Wildhorse Saloon
Thu
07/17/08
Knoxville, TN
Tennessee
Theatre
Fri
07/18/08
Chicago, IL
House
Of Blues
Sat
07/19/08
Goshen, IN
Elkhart
County 4-H Fair
Mon
07/21/08 Council Bluffs, IA
Harrah's Casino - Stir Concert
Cove
Sat
07/26/08
Oakville, CA
Robert
Mondavi Winery
Sun
07/27/08
San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
Fri
08/01/08
Costa Mesa, CA Pacific
Amphitheatre
Sat
08/02/08
Primm, NV
Star
of the Desert Arena
Sun
08/03/08
San Diego, CA
Humphrey's
Concerts By The Bay
Tue
08/05/08
Saratoga, CA
The
Mountain Winery
Sat
08/09/08
Aspen, CO
Belly
Up Aspen
Sun
08/10/08
Colorado Springs, CO Pikes Peak Center
Mon
08/11/08 Beaver Creek, CO
Vilar Center For The Arts
Thu
08/14/08
Silverton, OR
Oregon
Garden
Fri
08/15/08
Tacoma, WA
Emerald
Queen Casino
Sat
08/16/08
Richmond, BC
River Rock
Casino Resort
Sun
08/17/08
Coquitlam, BC
Red Robinson
Theatre
Tue
08/19/08
Medicine Hat, AB The
Esplanade
Wed
08/20/08 Regina, SK
Casino
Regina Show Lounge
Fri
08/22/08
Thunder Bay, ON Thunder
Bay Community Auditorium
Sat
08/23/08
Hinckley, MN
Grand
Casino Hinckley
Sun
08/24/08
Sault Ste. Marie, MI Kewadin Casino
Tue
08/26/08
Verona, NY
Turning
Stone Resort & Casino
Wed
08/27/08 Jim Thorpe, PA
Penn's Peak
Fri
08/29/08
Lincoln, RI
Twin
River Casino
Sun
08/31/08
Bridgeport, CT
Klein Memorial
Auditorium
Fri
09/05/08
Coarsegold, CA Chukchansi
Gold Resort & Casino
Sat
09/06/08 Rancho
Cucamonga, CA Lewis Family Playhouse
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Media
Contact: Jennifer Ballantyne – EMI Music Marketing
(323) 871-5494 /
jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com