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Seven the Hard Way

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Released
  
October 30, 1985

Length
  
37:05

Artist
  
Pat Benatar

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Recorded
  
1985

Seven the Hard Way (1985)
  
Best Shots (1987)

Release date
  
1985

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

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Studio
  
Capitol Studios, Cherokee Studios, Conway Recording Studios and Oasis Studios, Hollywood, Soundcastle Studios, Los Angeles, MCA Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California

Producer
  
Neil Giraldo, Joe Chiccarelli Mike Chapman ("Invincible")

Similar
  
Pat Benatar albums, Rock music albums

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Seven the Hard Way is Pat Benatar's sixth studio album, and her seventh album overall, released in 1985. It debuted on the US Billboard 200 album chart the week of December 14 and peaked at No. 26, producing the hits: "Invincible", "Sex as a Weapon", and "Le Bel Age". The album sold approximately 600,000 in the US and was certified Gold.

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The Grammy nominated single, "Invincible" was produced by Mike Chapman and recorded for the soundtrack of the Matthew Robbins' movie The Legend of Billie Jean, which, although doing poorly at the box office, became a cult classic to MTV fans in general. The song became a hit single and was included in the album, despite its musical style being quite different from Benatar's current one and more reminiscent of her earlier efforts. Benatar often commented at her concerts before performing the song that it "is from one of the worst movies ever made."

Seven the Hard Way was the last Pat Benatar album to feature bassist Donnie Nossov, who along with drummer Myron Grombacher went on to play with Lita Ford on her breakthrough album, Lita (1988) and on the supporting tour. Grombacher would return to Benatar's band for her follow-up album, Wide Awake in Dreamland, released after the three-year hiatus that followed Seven the Hard Way.

BGO Records reissued Seven the Hard Way on CD with Tropico.

Band members

  • Pat Benatar – vocals
  • Neil Giraldo – guitars, producer
  • Charlie Giordano – keyboards
  • Donnie Nossov – bass
  • Myron Grombacher – drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • The Uptown Horns – horns
  • Frank Linx, Tuffy Cummings, Maxi Anderson, Phyllis St. James, Rose Banks, Tom Kelly, Tommy Funderburk, Von Ciele Faggett, Gean Johnson, Carmen Twillie, Táta Vega – backing vocals

    • Production

  • Joe Chiccarelli – associate producer, engineer, mixing
  • Mike Chapman – producer of "Invincible"
  • William Whittman – engineer and mixing on "Invincible"
  • Daren Klein, Dave Hernandez, George Tutko – engineers
  • Brian Scheuble, Charlie Paakkari, Gary Hollis, Mark DeSisto, Paul Ericksen, Richard McKernan, Robert Corti, Samii Taylor, Scott Church, Steve Himelfarb – assistant engineers
  • George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York

    • Songs

    1Sex as a Weapon4:21
    2Le Bel Age5:12
    3Walking in the Underground4:43

    References

    Seven the Hard Way Wikipedia
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