Pat Benatar- Precious Time
One of the blessings that comes with maturity is the confidence to tell the unvarnished truth, and in this classic rock interview to mark her #1-selling third album Precious Time, Pat Benatar makes a series of eyebrow-raising revelations here In the Studio.
“It went platinum (1,000,000 sales ) in thirteen days,” Pat Benatar states matter-of-factly while she and hubby/musical director Neil Giraldo reminisce In the Studio about her explosive third album, Precious Time, as it headed rapidly to the top-selling perch in America by Augus 1981. There are some powerful perennials on her best-charting collection, including the timeless tortured love rockers “Promises in the Dark” and “Fire and Ice”, no doubt delivered with complete conviction as Pat was just attempting to rebound from a bad first marriage as she was falling in love with her new guitar player. But the real story wasn’t between the sheets.

“My clothes off !” Benatar blurts out.
“You’re talking about management and the record company,” Giraldo continued,”that she really couldn’t do anything! We were trying to make records, and they were telling us what we can and can’t do, and would play both ends against the middle.”
“What happened was that I had a record company and a management group who refused to be open-minded,” Pat pointed out.”It was a constant battle with them. I was already gone (figuratively) by the time this record came out. By the time this came out, I was already moving to another place. Except that they weren’t letting me. And at that time they still had control, they had contractual control. I didn’t have a choice at that time. And that was when I said, ‘You can do anything you want, but you can’t make me make records. And if you don’t let me make the kinds of records that I want to make, I WON”T make them anymore.” –Redbeard