

But which one topped them all? Check out our ranking of every Pat Benatar studio album, from worst to best. Six albums reached platinum sales or better as Benatar built a hall of fame career. With Giraldo providing songwriting and production support, Benatar emerged as one of the preeminent female voices in rock. The duo later married, and their rock n' roll romance ultimately inspired a Broadway musical. Thus began an incredibly fruitful partnership, as Benatar and Giraldo would collaborate on all of her music moving forward. He was constantly experimenting and trying new things, yet he knew precisely what needed to be pushed farther and what needed to be discarded. “From the moment we first started collaborating, I knew Spyder was a visionary,” Benatar added.

Things changed for the better with the arrival of guitarist Neil "Spyder" Giraldo. I cried for days, saying that I was finished before I’d even started.” "The tracks were played technically well, but they had no soul, no passion. A few weeks after that, the pandemic came along."Everything was wrong," she said in the 2010 memoir Between a Heart and a Rock Place.

A couple of weeks after we closed on the house a tornado hit and took off part of the roof and blew up the porch. “We’d been staying so much in Nashville while we were on tour it made sense to buy a place there. “It was kind of biblical, really,” she laughs now, recalling the shocking events of that year. The stroke affected the motor skills along the left half of her body only timely intervention and the long, arduous process of rehab prevented more lasting and profound disability. He rushed her to Vanderbilt Medical Centre where medics discovered a blood clot on the right side of her brain. Back in November 2020, her partner Tom Oversby found her collapsed on the bathroom floor of their Nashville home. For years Pat trained as a classical singer, studying arias and operatic singing. While in school, her choir teacher first noticed her vocal talents and began encouraging her as a singer. You wouldn’t consider it today, fresh from a triumphant European tour, but two years ago it seemed like Williams might never walk or pick up a guitar again. From her beginnings in a family that struggled financially, yet clearly loved and focused on their children’s happiness, to her success as a Rock singer. With dogged resilience, however, she returns this spring with her long-awaited memoir and her 16th album – whose guests include Bruce Springsteen, Margo Price and Angel Olsen. In brilliantly tragic and hilarious detail, Between Rock & A Hard Place is the epic memoir of Carsten Raschs role in the South African counter-culture Punk. Three years ago, a stroke left medical professionals wondering whether Lucinda Williams would ever walk again.
