Interview with Holly Knight: How a Random Joke Became Pat Benatar’s "Love Is a Battlefield"
In 1983 at the height of MTV #1 female rocker Pat Benatar took POP radio hostage with this explosive anthem…Love is a Battlefield. Today I sit down with the famous co-writer of this classic…Holly Knight... It started out when her legendary songwriting partner, Mike Champman blurted out a weird title and then the 2 songwriters sat across from each other with a swimming pool between them and shot a paper airplane across the pool with each writing a line each time and flying it across until they finished the song… Luckily it didn’t fall in the pool! In the end, Holly felt one of the key lyrics…
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