Pat Benatar's Playlist

June 18, 2010 — -- Pat Benatar has been rocking out since before it was a girl thing to do.

The four-time Grammy Award winning vocalist said she didn't want to be just a girl who sang in a band.

"I just wanted to be a rocker," she said.

While her contemporaries sang forlorn songs about their broken hearts and lost loves, her 1979 debut album, "In the Heat of the Night," featuring the song "Heartbreaker," with her signature powerful vocals, tough sexuality, and power chords, had her coming out looking like a badass.

"This song was about, 'Get over it. You hurt me. You're gonna pay. I'm not going to stand here. I'm not going to take it,'" she said. "I always say that I would play it if I have to come out in a walker. I'll be singing 'Heartbreaker' until I die."

Below are Benatar's top picks for some of the other songs she'll continue to play for years to come.

The Beatles: 'She Loves You'

Born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski in Brooklyn, Benatar and her family moved to Long Island when she was three years old.

She became interested in theater and took voice lessons as a child, singing in school and church choirs whenever she could.

She vividly remembers begging her parents to let her watch "The Ed Sullivan Show" one evening, even though the family only had one television.

"I begged my parents, 'Please let me watch this, I want to watch this, the Beatles are going to be on,'" she recalled, saying that she was "going crazy," screaming and jumping as they played.

According to Benatar, "Every time they would go, 'She loves you, yeah yeah yeah ... with a love like that ... [I was] screaming my guts out, and my father would be like, 'Make her stop that.'

"So that was a huge moment in my life," she said, laughing.

Judy Garland: 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'

Benatar said she adored Judy Garland and her style, particularly in "The Wizard of Oz." With the concept of renting movies still off in the future, she would have to wait an entire year to watch the film when it aired on TV.