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Contents 1 All the Bills Up 2 Dolphin Anthem 3 Had sex with DJ Mike Sorce one time 4 Hell Is For Children 5 I need some help. 6 Gay Icon Project 7 suggestions 8 American Chopper (The Tuttle Family) 9 Pronunciation of birth name

[edit] All the Bills Up

I don't know if that business is a valid explanation. I worked as a bank teller and we were required to have all bills face the same way and none of us were slow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.50.45.239 (talk) 04:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dolphin Anthem

Please SOMEONE read the lyrics to 'Hit Me' before going off and claiming it's about dolphins. Cuts down on the odds you'll be branded a fool again.

[edit] Had sex with DJ Mike Sorce one time

one time Pat Benetar had sex with Mike Sorce. can we figure out how to add that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.105.239 (talk) 17:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

OMG I've had sex with hundreds of people. WHO CARES?

agreed, this is thoroughly unprovable and entirely irrelevant. AaronzDad (talk) 23:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hell Is For Children

There should be note of the controversy surrounding her fairly uncontroversial song "Hell is for Children". Mike H 03:54, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Indeed this is a significant factor in PB's life and career and certainly needs to be mentioned. It's my understanding she's donated significant proceeds from that song to abused children's causes. -Mike H I hope you don't mind my moving your comment to a new header here. AaronzDad (talk) 23:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I need some help.

I am doing this music project for school, and I am stuck on this. I need to know what insturments are used in the song "Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar.

[edit] Gay Icon Project

In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:12, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

She isn't even gay, so how can she be a gay icon? That is totally out of question. I am removing this category unless you give me sufficient reasoning or evidence not to do so. Эйрон Кинни 21:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The article doesn't say the person himself/herself needs to be gay, only be "a celebrity with wide-spread fans from the LGBT community". (Entheta 00:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC))

Just incredible that there's so much homophobia on Wikipedia. Is this an encyclopedia or YouTube? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.209.26 (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, according to the definition of "gay icon" given, Pat Benatar fits several of the requirements and needs not be gay herself in order to do that. I saw Pat Benatar live in 2006 there were MANY lesbian fans in attendance. It is the lyrical content of female strength in her songs that apparently prompts her to fit the category. Wicked Little Lady 13:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)(WLL 02/01/2007) I think Pat Benatar's brother was gay. He also passed away a few years ago of natural causes. Pat Benatar has also played a few past Pride events and the Dinah Shore weekend in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redvsn (talk • contribs) 20:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC) Get this nonsense out of here. This *IS* an encylopedia, which means we don't need stupid little tags for groups of this that and the other. How about. . .oh, I dunno. . .INFORMATION!?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.0.42 (talk) 19:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] suggestions

Someone should add in the other band members and the fact that there were no videos filmed for some of her most popular singles.

Good idea. I'll add in a bit about the band. Ariochiv 19:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

A lot of songs listed as "singles" were never released as such. Someone needs to delete them. For instance "Precious Time" and "Anxiety (Get Nervous)" were never released or promoted as singles. Videos exist for them because Benatar's label wanted videos for the title songs to her albums to promote selling of the albums. Also, "Temporary Heroes" was a single in some Asian markets, but never in America. Also, "Hell Is For Children" and "Everybody Lay Down" were never singles, but they did get a lot of airplay. To list them as "uncharting singles" is rather misleading.

Plus, one honest-to-goodness single was missing from the listings, "Christmas in America". I added that one in. It was available in 2001 as a CD single and made the sales chart, but not the main Hot 100. (It did get to #22 on the Adult Contemporary chart, which might be worth a footnote, because it's a chart with which you normally don't associate Pat Benatar.) I'll do some checking on some of the others. Some of them may have been issued to radio as promos; I know "Temporary Heroes" was because I have that one on a promo 12-inch single. I'll do some more work on this. Cheemo 17:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Chopper (The Tuttle Family)

I'm watching American Chopper last night and see a new intro for the program. Is that Pat Benatar?!?!? It sure looks like her. And I swear I heard hear name mentioned, but I was in the kitchen and can't be sure. William (Bill) Bean 15:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation of birth name

I guess this pronunciation given is wrong. Andrzejewski is NOT pronounced "AN-dree-esk-ee" but rather "AN-jay-evs-kee". "Andrzej" (russian: Andrej, greek: Andreas, english: Andrew, french: André) is pronounced "An-jay" in Polish. -andy 84.149.105.215 09:26, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Regardless of how the name "is pronouced," Pat's name is pronounced "AN-dray-es-kee." I know this because I asked her and recorded the answer. SHE pronounces HER name "AN-dray-es-kee." If you want to pronounce the word differently, that's your prerogative...but I think the woman knows her own name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.209.26 (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Just an FYI~ Pat's first album was with a band named: Coxins Army. She is sitting on top of a piano in a white dress, on the cover. Don't let the media full you, the album is out there. My mom had a copy, as well as the rest of the family. My brother was the keyboardist for her. After 50.000 copies, she had the album pulled. She wanted to be knowen only as a Rocker. Just thought you all might want the facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toni darlene (talk • contribs) 19:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)