Product Description

Pat Benatar is rock radio’s tough and tender leading lady and one of the video era’s first and hottest female stars. An era’s worth of stellar hits, including Promises In The Dark, Invincible, All Fired Up, and True Love – mark a truly auspicious career that continues to thrive today. Available for the first time ever on one DVD, Pat Benatar’s complete video collection!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51778 in DVD
• Brand: EMI
• Released on: 2003-09-16
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 140 minutes

Customer Reviews

A great Video Collection if Pat Benatar R&R Videos...
If you are into Eighties Rock and Roll, and are a fan of this talented young lady from New York you will find this video collection from Pat Benatar a delight. Knowing that she was trained originally as an opera singer and then changed venues to Rock & Roll makes seeing these videos a necessity and a must for alll fans of this lady from the Eighties. Especially, for me when she belts out out: Hit Me with Your Best Shot or Lipstick Lies or my Favorite, Shadows of the Night. The first time I saw this video was on a ferryboat on the North Sea between Denmark and Norway in 1982, I have not seen it since but can always remember vaugely what the video protrayed. I thought it was phenomenal then and still do as are the rest of the collection.

More artists from the video age should do this!
While some may say that the video age was on the brain dead side, it still occupies a warm spot in the hearts of others. Nowhere is that made more clear than on this collection. I've been a fan of Pat ever since the first time I heard her made-for-AOR pipes on local radio, and became a bigger fan after seeing just how good she looked on some of her earlier videos, but my wife is the true fan. I bought this on the spur of the moment before we had even purchased a DVD player, and it was only recently that we finally got the chance to watch it. We spent a Friday evening after the kids were in bed watching in amazement and with amusement almost twenty years of video Pat, and neither of us considered the evening lost. On the contrary, the early videos from the dawn of the video age were a great nostalgia trip, while the middle ones were good for a laugh because they had somehow learned to take themselves too seriously. We chose the option where Pat and Neil give their own commentary and explain what they were going through at the time and what some of the videos have come to mean to them. Okay, so it isn't Casablanca, but if you grew up in the eighties it has a certain charm.

Video collection - Pat Benatar
This DVD is really value for money. There are 29 videos including four live performances. Not all singles are represented though but this is possibly because there was not a video filmed for that particular song (eg. We Live For Love, Treat Me Right, Hit Me with your best shot). The question is, why did they put on two live performances of "Heartbreaker" when they could have put a live version of one of the missing songs I have mentioned (from her various concerts). The other bad point is the poor DVD art work, it really deserves better (the cover makes it look cheap).

Those little criticisms aside, what I really like about this video collection is that it is in chronological order, and each video contains an audio commentary (if selected) from Pat and her husband Nick. There is also the option to include the video of them talking at the bottom of each video. I enjoyed their commentary, it was honest and interesting.

Pat Benatar has one of the most blessed vocals of the female recording world. Her classically trained voice is divine to hear. The tracklisting is too long to mention, but it covers 90% of her best known songs. Overall, this is a highly recommended DVD.