Pat Benatar: Crimes of Passion (Chrysalis)
Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1980
YOU'VE PROBABLY heard much of this album on the radio already, maybe you've gone ahead and bought it (I see that the album's now #5 in the nation), so my comments may be anticlimactic by the time you read this.
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