For my non-Facebook friends, I present:<\/p>\n
25 Random Things About Pat Benatar<\/strong><\/p>\n Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note of 25 random things. At the end, you choose 25 people to be tagged. You are to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you it is because I want you to know more about Pat Benatar.<\/p>\n 1. Born Patrick Andrzejewski, soon after Patricia Mae Andrzejewski following a coin flip.<\/p>\n 2. Was accepted to the Julliard school.<\/p>\n 3. Wrote “Love is a Battlefield” after she broke up with her Argentinian boyfriend, at the Battle of Goose Green during the Falklands conflict.<\/p>\n 4. Her mother was a beautician who once sang opera at the Met.<\/p>\n 5. Her father was a sheet metal worker once tossed out of Shea for spitting on a Met.<\/p>\n 6. She once recorded jingles for Pepsi, which inspired her chart topping “Hit Me with Your Best Shot,” a stirring anthem for the Cola Wars of the ’80s.<\/p>\n 7. Once got with Roy Orbison until he started “Crying.”<\/p>\n 8. Got her first break at an open mic night at Catch a Rising Star comedy club.<\/p>\n 9. Can be recognized from Olivia Newton John and Juice Newton by her lack of Newton.<\/p>\n 10. Reluctantly took on her husband’s last name Benatar after John Cougar reclaimed her first stage name “Mellencamp”<\/p>\n 11. Her first hit was 1979’s “Heartbreaker,” which she wrote after disguising herself as a surgeon and intentionally botching John Cougar’s heart valve replacement.<\/p>\n 12. Intentionally recorded a crummy cover of “I Need a Lover” to further spite John.<\/p>\n 13. “You Better Run” was the second video played on MTV ever. Rocketing her to stardom among the three people who had cable at the time.<\/p>\n 14. Turns out she never really wanted her MTV<\/p>\n 15. Her live album, “Live from Earth” was ironically recorded on the surface of a large c-type asteroid<\/p>\n 16. After divorcing Dennis Benatar, she married her guitarist Neil Giraldo in 1982.<\/p>\n 17. In 1989, she appeared in an ABC Afterschool Special “Torn Between Two Fathers” where she played the wise old owl.<\/p>\n 18. A 33rd degree Freemason, the subject of her last big hit “We Belong.”<\/p>\n 19. Released three albums in the 1990s, for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n 20. Spent fifteen years mastering the Hanzo sword bequeathed to her by her sensei.<\/p>\n 21. Invented the thin keyboard tie in 1981.<\/p>\n 22. Qualified in the biathlon for the Nagano Olympics. She didn’t compete, feigning injury so she could avenge the death of her sensei.<\/p>\n 23. Bernie Madoff lost money to HER.<\/p>\n 24. Her 2007 song, “Passion,” could be downloaded, for a time, from a Jell-O sponsored website.<\/p>\n 25. 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