This happens a few times, before a couple notes strum on an electric guitar. I don’t think that’ll ever change.Cover Version – Siouxsie and the Banshees (1978)Ī single note plays on a bass guitar. “The wife and I were always able to make the music together. “We lost the romantic relationship for a minute but never the creative relationship,” Girlado said years later. Benatar and Giraldo’s relationship issues led to rough patches on the road - Grombacher labeled it the “Hell Is for Us” tour, according to Benatar - but the two eventually reconciled, marrying in Maui in 1982. 1, 1981, following the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”Īmidst all the drama, Precious Time simply continued Benatar’s upward trajectory, also hitting the Top 10 in Canada, France, Australia, Sweden and New Zealand. 15 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart) and the Beatles‘ “Helter Skelter,” while drummer Myron Grombacher teamed with Giraldo on the track “Hard to Believe.” Performance videos for “Fire and Ice” and “Promises in the Dark,” meanwhile, cemented Benatar’s stature as an early MTV darling a clip for her cover of the Young Rascals’ “You Better Run” from Crimes of Passion was the second video aired by MTV on Aug. Precious Time also featured covers of Paul Revere & the Raiders‘ “Just Like Me” (No. In another irony, Kelly’s future songwriting partner Billy Steinberg penned Precious Time‘s title track (about his mother) he and Kelly went on to team up on hits for Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, Whitney Houston and others, and they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame during 2011. “Fire and Ice,” meanwhile, was a more generic rumination on romantic angst, written by Benatar with Tom Kelly and band guitarist Scott St. “I was also embarrassed to write about anything personal.” Giraldo took Benatar’s idea and came up with a blazing rocker, writing the last verse during sessions at Sound City Studios. “I was so new to songwriting that I wasn’t at all confident about my skills,” she acknowledged. Ironically, Precious Time‘s opening track, “Promises in the Dark,” had been written about their relationship, from lyrics Benatar wrote during the Crimes of Passion cycle and slipped under the door of the music room in the house she and Giraldo were sharing. …The worst part was that instead of feeling like we were moving toward something, we were moving farther way.”
“It was like we were back to the beginning again. “There was no outward display of emotion,” she wrote. They’d still have dinner every night, Benatar recalled, talking about the songs, the album, the upcoming tour. That made the recording process a bit strange but productive. Benatar and Giraldo, who had been living together, decided to split up.
There was a pre-recording hiccup, however. Watch Pat Benatar’s ‘Promises in the Dark’ Video Things ran much smoother in his absence.”
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At least this time it was more up-front, and we knew how to react. His attitude … was basically, ‘You want to coproduce? Have fun. This time he was much more blatant about checking out. On that record he at least had a face of involvement. As a result, he did even less than he had on Crimes of Passion. Keith clearly had been forced to give the production credit and he was not happy about it. Nevertheless, she added, “there was a lot of tension. For Precious Time, Chrysalis Records granted Giraldo coproduction credit, which Benatar termed “either a peace offering or a consolation prize.” Making Crimes of Passion had been turbulent: The couple felt producer Keith Olsen was often AWOL, leaving Giraldo to pick up the pieces. Precious Time was also a personal triumph for Benatar and guitarist and songwriting partner (and future husband) Neil Giraldo. The former also delivered the second of Benatar’s four Grammy Awards, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. 1 album on the Billboard Top 200, went double platinum and added two more Top 40 hits (“Fire and Ice” and “Promises in the Dark”) to her resume. That wound up paying great dividends, too. “The cushion of success that we’d earned was enough to make everyone relax a bit.” “There was no doubt that we’d made strides,” Benatar wrote in her 2010 memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place. But all of that instilled confidence, more than anything else, into the making of her third LP. It followed a pair of blockbuster albums, 1979’s In the Heat of the Night and 1980’s Crimes of Passion, along with five Billboard Hot 100 hits.
Precious Time - released on Jcould well have been a pressure-packed affair for the singer. The third time was indeed the charm for Pat Benatar.
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