
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
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Year:
2022
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Inducted by:
Sheryl Crow
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Category:
Performers
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Pat Benatar
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Neil Giraldo
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are among the most formidable power couples in rock history. Together, they created a sound that deeply impacted the sonic landscape of the 1980s.

Sheryl Crow Inducts Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
at the 2022 Induction Ceremony-
Sheryl Crow Inducts Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo00:03:51
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Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Acceptance Speech00:04:20
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Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo perform "Love is a Battlefield" & "Heartbreaker"00:07:00
HALL OF FAME ESSAY
2022
"Heartbreaker”: Three seconds of sixteenth notes on electric guitar, pummeling, pounding, punching the void; drummer and bass player locked in. At the fourth second, a swerving guitar chord lands, repeating at the seventh and tenth second. But it’s the eleventh second – when a serrated electric guitar lead corkscrews it all – that pins listeners to the wall. It’s the intersection point of punk and arena rock; a ramped-up rush of testosterone with musical acuity. And then, when the voice comes in – that pure, strong, swaggering mezzo-soprano – the seismic shift crashes hard.
