SOUNDTRACK: PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO-Tiny Desk Concert #407 (November 24, 2014).
I never liked Pat Benatar. Back in the day she was all over MTV (and even in Fast Time at Ridgemont High) and I just didn’t like her. I’m not sure why, although I was particularly bitter about “Hell is for Children” (being a child myself). Of course, I still know all of her singles really well.
But I haven’t thought about her in probably a decade. And then around 2014 that she was playing with Neil Giraldo in some kind of acoustic tour. I recognized his name but didn’t know they were married or anything like that.
And so here they are doing a Tiny Desk Concert–all acoustic–with him playing guitar and contributing backing vocals. Over the decades, Benatar’s voice has changed a bit–she sounds gruffer and it really suits her. (more…)
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