Pat Benatar live debuted her often-misunderstood song “Hell is For Children” on July 25, 1980 in Central Park.
The song was inspired by a series of New York Times feature articles about child abuse in the USA that opened the eyes of the singer.
“I came from a really small town on Long Island and I had no idea that this existed, not in the little gingerbread place I came from. I was stunned. It affected me so much. I was moved by the articles. Whenever that would happen I would write,” she told Portfolio Weekly.
So she told her husband and guitarist Neil Giraldo, “I want you to do something to the music so that it sounds like pain. I want the intense pain that’s happening to these children in the notes,’ and so he did and it turned out just great. It became an anthem.”
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