Dirty Laundry by Don Henley

Genre: Rock
Year: 2008

"Dirty Laundry" is a song by Don Henley from his debut solo album I Cant 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 Cant 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 songs theme is that TV news coverage focuses too much on negative and sensationalist news; in Read full article at wikipedia.org

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