Pat Benatar Neil Giraldo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

You know I wrote this for you, baby you know Oh, yeah, sure. Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo do mockbickering as well as any longmarried couple which, of course, is exactly what they are. More notably, they ve formed a commercial and creative juggernaut spanning more than three decades, with the Brooklynborn Benatar singing and Giraldo working as her guitarist, producer and fellow songwriter. Benatar s recording career spans a dozen studio albums, seven of which have sold more than a million copies, and has yielded multiple Grammy Awards and some remarkably sturdy staples of the classicrock canon. Though most widely associated with a string of charttoppers in the late 70s through the 80s Love Is A Battlefield, Heartbreaker, et al Benatar and Giraldo still draw huge crowds, for reasons made abundantly clear here. Classically trained as a mezzosoprano, Benatar still possesses a formidable instrument, and the pair s songs have lost none of their appeal in the intervening decades. And