Women of Classic Rock in Honor of International Women’s Day

Today is International Women's Day where the entire world celebrates women. So I figured I would pay tribute to the women of classic rock.

When I was really young, I'm talking seven or eight, my sister Jeanine had a couple of albums from Linda Ronstadt. I remember the album cover of her in a school hallway wearing roller skates and I thought she was hot. So I would borrow my sister's album and listen to them. She also had Heart and Fleetwood Mac albums as well. I would borrow them and take them into my room and listen to them on my record player. They were the first female rockers I was exposed to. (That doesn't sound right)

Years later, I remember being in my brother-in-law John's car in 1980. He was taking me to a high school basketball game. He had Pat Benatar's 'Crimes of Passion in' in the cassette player and it was love at first listen. I remember going out and buying that album and Pat's first album 'In the Heat of the Night' as soon as I scraped up enough money. I was in love with Pat Benatar. I thought for sure when I grew up, I would marry her. Pat went on to marry her guitar player Neil Giraldo and it broke my heart. Still to this day she is my all-time favorite female rocker. I thought her first four albums were awesome. Below are my top five favorite women of classic rock. Notable mentions that did not make the list that I have respect for include; Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders and Debbie Harry from Blondie.