Dirty Laundry (Don Henley song)
| "Dirty Laundry" | ||||
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| Single by Don Henley | ||||
| from the album I Can't Stand Still | ||||
| B-side | "Lilah" | |||
| Released | October 12, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Studio | Record One (Los Angeles, California) | |||
| Length | 5:36 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
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Dirty Laundry is a song written by American musicians 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 Billboard Top Album Tracks chart in October 1982 prior to being issued as a 45 rpm single. Lyrically, the song describes mass media sensationalism.
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. The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in March 1983, representing sales of a million copies in the United States.