Pat Benatar had been around for almost 10 years by the time I got around to buying my first Pay Benatar album. I had seen her videos and heard a lot of songs on the radio, but I had never bought an album. That changed in 1988 with the release of one song…”All Fired Up”.
That was the song that did it for me. I heard that song and finally decided to go out and buy the CD. The album ‘Wide Awake in Dreamland” was My First Time with Pat Benatar.
Pat Benatar has one of the finest voices ever in Rock music, but for some reason I always hesitated buying her stuff. There is no one out there with her octave range or her talent. This album showed me that she was untouchable when it came to vocals. It was this album that caused me to go back and get her entire collection over the next few years.
I was out at the record store a month back and came across this album and had to have it on vinyl. The cool thing about the album I found was that it was a “Promotional Only” album and not supposed to be available for resale.
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