Love Is a Battlefield

"Love Is a Battlefield"
US 7-inch picture sleeve
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Live from Earth
B-side"Hell Is for Children" (live version)[1]
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1983
Recorded1983
StudioMCA Whitney (Glendale, California)
GenreDance-rock[2]
Length5:23 (album version)
4:11 (single edit)
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Pat Benatar singles chronology
"Looking for a Stranger"
(1983)
"Love Is a Battlefield"
(1983)
"We Belong"
(1984)
Audio sample
Music video
"Love Is a Battlefield" on YouTube

"Love Is a Battlefield" is a song by American singer Pat Benatar, 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 at number 30 in VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s.[3] "Love Is a Battlefield" went on to sell over a million records.[4]

  1. ^ "Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield". discogs. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Matos, Michaelangelo (December 8, 2020). "EMI Records, New York City: November 13, 1984". Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year. Hachette Books. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-306-90337-3.
  3. ^ "Rock On The Net: VH1: '100 Greatest Songs of the 80's': 1-50".
  4. ^ "Pat Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield". rockpopinfo.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)