![]() ![]() Hi everybody - We know that many of you have heard that we have had to cancel all of our tour dates until the New Year due to Spyders injury. ![]() This is a used book that has been loved and read by a previous owner. Between a Heart & a Rock Place: the Official Pat Benatar Autobiography Septem ![]() She envied a partnership like that of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards but wasn't sure her training as a classical musician would give her the dream of being a rockstar. Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir. While recording fewer songs these days, Benatar is still touring (she headlined 2009’s “Call Me Invincible” tour alongside Blondie and the Donnas) and keeping an eye on the next generation of female rockstars: “It’s empowering to watch, and to know that, perhaps in some way, I made the hard path that they still have to walk just a little bit easier. In her memoir, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place,' she explained that she desired to be a part of a rock band. Her music brought female rockers into the mainstream, and helped usher in the punk rock feminism of the riot grrrls-bands like Bikini Kill that were both fiercely sexual and openly political. ![]() Surrounded by talented and successful female performers, Benatar says, her mind was on “the extra five layers of skin I’d had to grow just to be standing on stage.” Battling sexism all the way, she won four Grammys and landed 19 singles on the Top 40 chart over the span of her career. In 1997, Benatar joined the all-female music tour Lilith Fair, started a year earlier by Sarah McLaughlin to prove the market for women in music. ![]()
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