SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Universal
Music Enterprises) - "Dirty Laundry," "The Boys Of Summer," and "The End Of The Innocence" are some of the most popular, powerful, and critically acclaimed songs of our time. Now those songs and more, digitally re-mastered from the original recordings, are being made available on The Very Best Of
Don Henley - the first career-to-date collection spanning Don Henley's tenures on Asylum, Geffen, and Warner Bros. The Very Best Of Don Henley, offered in CD and deluxe CD+DVD versions, is being released on June 16, 2009 through Geffen/UMe.
The Very Best Of Don Henley DVD features six iconic music videos including "The Boys Of Summer," "All She Wants To Do Is Dance," "The Heart Of The Matter," "The Last Worthless Evening," "Everything is Different Now" and "For My Wedding" as well as four bonus audio recordings from soundtrack releases: "Love Rules" (Fast Times At Ridgemont High), "Who Owns This Place?" (The Color Of Money), "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat" (Leap Of Faith) and "Through Your Hands" (Michael).
The 14-selection The Very Best Of Don Henley CD kicks off with "Dirty Laundry" from his solo 1982 debut album, the gold I Can't Stand Still. Henley followed with 1984's triple platinum Building The Perfect Beast with "The Boys Of Summer" (GRAMMY-winner for Best Rock Vocal), the Top 10 hit "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" as well as "Sunset Grill" and "Not Enough Love In The World."
Culled from 1989's six times platinum The End Of The Innocence , the 1989 album that remained on The Billboard Top 200 chart for 148 weeks) are the title track - another Grammy Rock Vocal winner -and the hit singles "The Last Worthless Evening," "The Heart Of The Matter," "I Will Not Go Quietly" and "New York Minute."
From his first solo collection, 1995's platinum Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits, The Very Best Of Don Henley features Henley's cover of Leonard Cohen's classic "Everybody Knows." Y2K's platinum Inside Job, his first solo album since 1989, was an intensely personal rumination on love and romance and included the No 1 Adult Contemporary hit "Taking You Home," "Everything Is Different Now" and "For My Wedding," the first Don Henley single to land on the Country music charts.
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The Very Best Of Don Henley (single disc version):
TRACK LISTING:
DIRTY LAUNDRY
THE BOYS OF SUMMER
ALL SHE WANTS TO DO IS DANCE
NOT ENOUGH LOVE IN THE WORLD
SUNSET GRILL
THE END OF THE INNOCENCE
THE LAST WORTHLESS EVENING
NEW YORK MINUTE
I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
EVERYBODY KNOWS
FOR MY WEDDING
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW
TAKING YOU HOME
The Very Best Of Don Henley (CD + DVD version):
TRACK LISTING:
CD
DIRTY LAUNDRY
THE BOYS OF SUMMER
ALL SHE WANTS TO DO IS DANCE
NOT ENOUGH LOVE IN THE WORLD
SUNSET GRILL
THE END OF THE INNOCENCE
THE LAST WORTHLESS EVENING
NEW YORK MINUTE
I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
EVERYBODY KNOWS
FOR MY WEDDING
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW
TAKING YOU HOME
DVD
VIDEOS
THE BOYS OF SUMMER
All SHE WANTS TO DO IS DANCE
THE LAST WORTHLESS EVENING
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW
FOR MY WEDDING
BONUS AUDIO
5. LOVE RULES
6. WHO OWNS THIS PLACE?
7. SIT DOWN, YOU'RE ROCKIN' THE BOAT
8. THROUGH YOUR HANDS