Billboard Hot 100 hits. But all of that instilled confidence, more than anything else, into the making of her third LP.
"There was no doubt that we'd made strides," Benatar wrote in her 2010 memoir,
Between a Heart and a Rock Place. "The cushion of success that we'd earned was enough to make everyone relax a bit."
That wound up paying great dividends, too.
Precious Time was Benatar's first No. 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. The former also delivered the second of Benatar's four Grammy Awards, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.