The End of the Innocence (album)
1989 studio album by Don Henley / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The End of the Innocence is the third solo studio album by Don Henley, the co-lead vocalist and drummer for the Eagles. The album was released in 1989, on Geffen Records, and was his last release on that label. It was also his last solo album before reforming the Eagles and it would be eleven years before he released another solo project, 2000's Inside Job.
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Released | June 27, 1989 (1989-06-27)[1] | |||
Recorded | 1987–1989 | |||
Studio | A&M (Hollywood) The Complex (Los Angeles) | |||
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Length | 53:11 | |||
Label | Geffen | |||
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Singles from The End of the Innocence | ||||
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AllMusic | [4] |
Robert Christgau | C+[5] |
The album is Henley's best selling release, selling over 6 million copies in the United States alone, peaking at No. 8. The album featured three Top 40 singles "The End of the Innocence", "The Heart of the Matter", and "The Last Worthless Evening". Those singles reached No. 8, No. 21, and No. 21 respectively. The album also featured "New York Minute" which reached No. 48 on the charts and was recorded by Henley and the Eagles for their live album Hell Freezes Over in 1994. Henley won another Grammy and an MTV Video Music Award nomination for the title track. In 2012, the album was ranked at number 389 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[6]