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Don Henley

Dirty Laundry

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“Dirty Laundry” is a song by Don Henley from his debut solo album I Can’t Stand Still, released in 1982. The song reached number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in October 1982. Released as the second single from I Can’t Stand Still, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1983. The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1983, representing shipments of one million records. The song is about the callousness (and callowness) of TV 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”, and thus is not a real journalist. The song’s theme is that TV news coverage focuses too much on negative and... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Kick 'em when they're up ... Kick 'em when they're down ... Give us dirty laundry ♫

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