Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benetar (1985)

Description

Additional information about this, Pat Benetar vinyl art.

Pat Benetar  – The Artist

Patricia Mae Giraldo (known professionally as Pat Benatar; born 1953) is an American singer and songwriter. Particularly popular In the United States, she has sold over 36 million albums worldwide.Her 1979 debut album, In the Heat of the Night, was her breakthrough. Two hit singles from the album were released: “Heartbreaker” and “We Live for Love”, the latter written by her lead guitarist and future husband, Neil Giraldo. Her second album, 1980’s Crimes of Passion, was her most successful work. The single “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” is considered to be her signature song. Her third album, Precious Time (1981), was another success. Its single “Fire and Ice” charted highly in the US and Canada. Her next release, Get Nervous (1982), sold less well than her previous two albums, but did include the North American hit “Shadows of the Night”. In 1983, her sound began to move towards more atmospheric pop. The single “Love Is a Battlefield” (1983) was her biggest hit in most countries,

Love is a Battlefield – The Song

‘Love is a Battlefield’ is a song by American singer Pat Benatar, recorded and released on September 12, 1983, as a single from Benatar’s live album Live from Earth (1983), though the song itself was a studio recording. It was written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman. The song was ranked as one of the of the Greatest Songs of the 1980s. “Love Is a Battlefield” went on to sell over a million records worldwide.

The Hand Grenade – The Shape

This record has been modelled into a silhouette of a hand grenade. A grenade is an explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell shot from the muzzle of a rifle or a grenade launcher. A modern hand grenade generally consists of an explosive charge, a detonator mechanism, an internal striker to trigger the detonator, an arming safety secured by a transport safety. The user removes the transport safety before throwing, and once the grenade leaves the hand the arming safety gets released, allowing the striker to trigger a primer that ignites a fuze (sometimes called the delay element), which burns down to the detonator and explodes the main charge. Grenades work by dispersing fragments (fragmentation grenades), shockwaves (high-explosive, anti-tank and stun grenades), chemical aerosols (smoke and gas grenades) or fire (incendiary grenades). Their outer casings, generally made of a hard synthetic material or steel, are designed to rupture and fragment on detonation, sending out numerous fragments (shards and splinters) as fast-flying projectiles. In modern grenades, a pre-formed fragmentation matrix inside the grenade is commonly used, which may be spherical, cuboid, wire or notched wire. Most anti-personnel (AP) grenades are designed to detonate either after a time delay or on impact. Grenades are often spherical, cylindrical, ovoid or truncated ovoid in shape, and of a size that fits the hand of an average-sized adult. Some grenades are mounted at the end of a handle and known as “stick grenades”.

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