In the AXS TV clip below, music legend Pat Benatar reveals she didn’t want to be like Linda Ronstadt, she wanted to be much more in your face like the rock stars from Led Zeppelin or Foreigner. She tells Dan Rather about getting her big break and meeting the love of her life, Neil Giraldo.
Benatar on her formative years:
“I know what I want to do. I want to be Robert Plant. I don’t want to be Linda Ronstadt. I ölove her, but I don’t want to be singing ‘If you break my heart…’ and all this stuff. I want to be singing ‘Don’t you break my heart or you’re gonna die.’ I want to be him (Robert Plant) or Lou Gramm. I decided to start switching gender on a bunch of cover songs, and pick songs (from other songwriters) that come from another perspective as a female.”
Billy Corgan, the frontman of two-time Grammy® Award-winning rock band, The Smashing Pumpkins, recently launched his new podcast, “The Magnificent Others”, via Bill Maher’s Club Random Studios.
In the new episode, Corgan sits down with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo who lay bare the real stories behind 45 years of music, marriage, and refusing to play by anyone else’s rules. They reflect on their Roman Catholic upbringings – incense, confessions, and all – and how that shaped them as restless creatives unwilling to settle. From the powerful genesis of “Hell Is For Children” to the revelation that struck when Pat first heard Neil’s guitar, they describe forging a distinct rock identity with no safety net.
They also get frank about living out of a Winnebago with a newborn in tow, the music industry’s disinterest in motherhood, and the intimate give-and-take that still sparks their writing sessions today. Whether it’s a new children’s book on grandparents, reimagining a classic in the studio, or standing up to label pressure in the ’80s, Pat and Neil share how trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose sustain them – onstage, offstage, and everywhere in between.
Listen at Apple Podcasts here, watch the video below:
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Benatar on her formative years:
“I know what I want to do. I want to be Robert Plant. I don’t want to be Linda Ronstadt. I ölove her, but I don’t want to be singing ‘If you break my heart…’ and all this stuff. I want to be singing ‘Don’t you break my heart or you’re gonna die.’ I want to be him (Robert Plant) or Lou Gramm. I decided to start switching gender on a bunch of cover songs, and pick songs (from other songwriters) that come from another perspective as a female.”
Billy Corgan, the frontman of two-time Grammy® Award-winning rock band, The Smashing Pumpkins, recently launched his new podcast, “The Magnificent Others”, via Bill Maher’s Club Random Studios.
In the new episode, Corgan sits down with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo who lay bare the real stories behind 45 years of music, marriage, and refusing to play by anyone else’s rules. They reflect on their Roman Catholic upbringings – incense, confessions, and all – and how that shaped them as restless creatives unwilling to settle. From the powerful genesis of “Hell Is For Children” to the revelation that struck when Pat first heard Neil’s guitar, they describe forging a distinct rock identity with no safety net.
They also get frank about living out of a Winnebago with a newborn in tow, the music industry’s disinterest in motherhood, and the intimate give-and-take that still sparks their writing sessions today. Whether it’s a new children’s book on grandparents, reimagining a classic in the studio, or standing up to label pressure in the ’80s, Pat and Neil share how trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose sustain them – onstage, offstage, and everywhere in between.
Listen at Apple Podcasts here, watch the video below:
Make sure you are following BraveWords Records on YouTube so you don’t miss any future videos by Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse, The Chris Slade Timeline, Jack Starr, Prophets of Addiction, ASKA, Crimson Glory, Lillian Axe and more!
Subscribe https://youtube.com/@BravewordsRecords?sub_confirmation=1
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