Dirty Laundry (Don Henley song)

"Dirty Laundry"
Single by Don Henley
from the album I Can't Stand Still
B-side	"Lilah"
Released	October 12, 1982
Recorded	1982
Genre	Synth-rock, synth-funk, new wave
Length	5:36
Label	Asylum
Songwriter(s)	Don Henley Danny Kortchmar
Producer(s)	Don Henley Danny Kortchmar Greg Ladanyi[1]
Don Henley singles chronology
"Johnny Can't Read" (1982) "Dirty Laundry" (1982) "I Can't Stand Still" (1982)
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"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 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 in March 1983, representing sales of a million copies in the United States.^[2]