Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

“You know I wrote this for you, baby — you know that.“ “Oh, yeah, sure.” Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo do mock-bickering as well as any long-married couple – which, of course, is exactly what they are. More notably, they’ve formed a commercial and creative juggernaut spanning more than three decades, with the Brooklyn-born Benatar singing and Giraldo working as her guitarist, producer and fellow songwriter. Benatar’s recording career spans a dozen studio albums, seven of which have sold more than a million copies, and has yielded multiple Grammy Awards and some remarkably sturdy staples of the classic-rock canon. Though most widely associated with a string of chart-toppers in the late ’70s through the ’80s — “Love Is A Battlefield,“ “Heartbreaker,“ et al — Benatar and Giraldo still draw huge crowds, for reasons made abundantly clear here. Classically trained as a mezzo-soprano, Benatar still possesses a formidable instrument, and the pair’s songs have lost none of their appeal in the intervening decades. And