Their 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction gave Pat Benatar and her husband, Cleveland native Neil Giraldo, a chance to pause and reflect on their 45-year career together. But the future seems even busier, with projects ranging from a children's book to a stage musical and more new music.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pat Benatar, right, and Cleveland native Neil Giraldo perform Wednesday, July 10, at MGM Northfield Park Both, speaking separately, tick off lists of projects they’re doing together and on their own. That includes a jointly written children’s book for 2025 and continuing work on their stage musical, “Invincible.
“I really mean that,” Giraldo adds. “I’m never satisfied, ever -- and never was. It can be cliche, I know, but if you think you’re gonna get lazy and be, ‘The hell with it. I did everything I’m gonna do. I’ll play golf all day,’ that’s not gonna happen. I will never stop.” “Invincible,” meanwhile, remains a work in progress and is in the process of reboot, according to the couple. A retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” using Benatar and Giraldo’s songs, it premiered in late 2022 in Los Angeles, a run they say was instructive -- so much so that “we’re tearing it to shreds and starting over,” according to Benatar, with work sessions planned for the fall in New York City.
“They really do have the greatest fans there, no question” Giraldo concurs. “The amount of knowledge and excitability people in Cleveland have for music, it’s always been phenomenal. So it’s always exciting to come back there.” “I don’t believe reading a memoir about me is really important, I don’t,” he explains. “What is important is the story, I want to something that will give people hope and show people if I can do this, you can do this too. That’s really what I want it to be about.”
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