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Dirty Laundry
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| "Dirty Laundry" | ||
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| Single by Don Henley | ||
| from the album I Can't Stand Still | ||
| Released | 1982 | |
| Recorded | 1982 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 5:36 | |
| Label | Geffen | |
| Writer(s) | Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar | |
| Producer(s) | Don Henley, Greg Ladanyi | |
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| Don Henley singles chronology | ||
| Johnny Can't Read (1982) |
Dirty Laundry (1982) |
I Can't Stand Still (1983) |
"Dirty Laundry" is a song by Don Henley, written by him and Danny Kortchmar. It is the second single released from Henley's 1982 solo debut album I Can't Stand Still, and his first hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard magazine Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. In their Live in Melbourne concert, the band dedicated this song "to Mr. Rupert Murdoch." The song is about the loss of integrity in evening news broadcasts. Henley sings from the standpoint of a news anchorman who "could have been an actor, but I wound up here", and thus is not a real journalist. The song's theme is that TV news coverage focuses too much on negative news, including deaths and disasters, and libels its subjects.("We all know that crap is king") The second verse contains an obvious reference to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, which occurred the previous year, as the music video for the song depicts the newsroom of the station getting excited at the prospects of the death of a major figure, even anticipating an interview with the widow before the figure has even died.
The song was covered by Lisa Marie Presley in 2005. It was the only single released from her album Now What, and reached #36 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
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