Don henley songs dirty laundry
Don henley songs dirty laundry
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Dirty Laundry (Don Henley song)
1982 single by Don Henley
"Dirty Laundry" is a song written by Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar from Henley's debut solo studio album I Can't Stand Still, (1982).
The song reached number 1 on the BillboardTop Album Tracks chart in October 1982 prior to being issued as a 45 rpm single. Lyrically, the song describes mass mediasensationalism.
Released as the second single from I Can't Stand Still, it spent three weeks at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.
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The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in March 1983, representing sales of a million copies in the United States.[2]
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The song is about the callousness of network television news reporting as well as the tabloidization of all news.
Henley sings from the standpoint of a news anchorman who "could have been an actor, but I wound up here". The song's theme is that TV news coverage focuses too much on negative and