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Just caught Pat Benatar on “The Joy Behar Show” promoting her new autobiography, “Between a Heart and a Rock Place,” and she spent a chunk of the interview talking about Richmond.

If you don’t already know the story (which is, apparently, in the book), Benatar was attending VCU when she decided to get a job as a bank teller. Her teller friends wanted to go see Liza Minnelli at the Richmond Coliseum, so Benatar tagged along and said as she was looking around the venue, she thought for the first time, “I can do this.” She also gave a shout-out to the Times-Dispatch in reference to an article she read at the time about all of the new venues opening in the Shockoe Slip area, where she eventually got her start performing with Coxon’s Army in the basement of Sam Miller’s.

Always nice to hear she hasn’t abandoned her roots in print or in TV interviews.

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