'Pat Benatar: Ultimate Collection' to be Released June 24 by Capitol/EMI

'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, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- 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."

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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     2.  I Need A Lover     3.  In The Heat Of The Night     4.  We Live Forever     5.  Treat Me Right     6.  You Better Run     7.  Never Wanna Leave You     8.  Hit Me With Your Best Shot     9.  Hell Is For Children     10. Promises In The Dark     11. Fire And Ice     12. Just Like Me     13. It's A Tuff Life     14. Precious Time     15. Shadows Of The Night     16. Looking For A Stranger     17. Anxiety (Get Nervous)     18. Little Too Late     19. The Victim     20. Lipstick Lies     21. Love Is A Battlefield    Disc 2     1.  Diamond Field     2.  We Belong     3.  Ooh Ooh Song     4.  The Outlaw Blues     5.  Painted Dessert     6.  Invincible (Theme From The Legend Of Billie Jean)     7.  Sex As A Weapon     8.  Le Bel Age     9.  All Fired Up     10. Don't Walk Away     11. One Love (Song Of The Lion)     12. Let's Stay Together     13. Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss     14. True Love     15. I Feel Lucky     16. The Good Life     17. Everybody Lay Down     18. Somebody's Baby     19. Every Time I Fall Back  

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Source: Capitol/EMI

CONTACT: Jennifer Ballantyne of EMI Music Marketing, +1-323-871-5494,
jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com

Web site: http://www.capitolrecords.com/

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