


Robert from AucklandIn New Zealand in early 1986, there was a hostage drama, and the guy known as 'tigertooth' only communicated to police through the local radio station 2XS.Paul, MnLove Pat's skin-tight jumpsuit in the video for this song. Ghostgetter from Dallas, TxOf the first ten videos played on MTV on the first day on air, #1 was Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles and the second was Pat Benatar Promises In The Dark.Lovelane from Grand Rapids, MiActually, the 2nd video shown on Mtv was "You Better Run", not "Promises".Rcb from Nanuet ByThe second video played on MTV was actually You Better Run by Pat Benatar not Promoses in the Dark.Bruce Adkins from Columbus While promises is a great song, I would recommend you see her in concert. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.Havent we all had to tend the emotional scars left. I would marry her in a heartbeat if Neil would just move on. The song deals with trials and tribulations of past relationships and how they affect the one youre in now. It's a fitting tribute to the artist, as her four-and-a-half-octave. Danny Boy from Fort WaynePat is life to the female rock industry. The liner notes to Capitol's 20-track retrospective of rock goddess Pat Benatar's golden years are filled with testimonials from some of the genre's queens, both reigning ( Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos) and retired ( Jane Wiedlin, Martha Davis ).And then when we went to record it, we had everything but the last verse, and then I just wrote the words for the last verse in the studio while we were recording it. My favorite guitar I had in the room at the time fell and busted while I was writing, and busted the top of the neck off it. Then she had a little bit of an idea of a melody, so I took a little bit of what that was, and I wrote it on piano in our little music room. But she put the words under the door because she was too embarrassed to let me see the words face to face. Even though we could have put it on Crimes of Passion, we ended up putting it on Precious Time instead. And then she put some words together, and she said, 'Here, try to do something with this thing.'Īctually she slipped the words under the door of our music room in this little house we had. But she actually started writing that on an airplane. I mean, I start probably 93% of them, and she'll jump in after I get it started. In a Songfacts interview with Neil Giraldo, he explained: "That was a song that Patricia started first. Giraldo and Benatar were dating when they wrote this song, which was early in their musical partnership.
