“How Bad Do You Want It” by Don Henley

"How Bad Do You Want It" sits on The End of the Innocence, the 1989 Geffen album that was Don Henley's third solo record, and the Eagles' co-lead singer and drummer wrote it with Danny Kortchmar and Stan Lynch. Henley and Kortchmar produced it together, and the title lands like a dare.

The album around it became the biggest seller of Henley's career, moving more than 6 million copies in the US alone, and Rolling Stone later placed it at 389 in its rundown of the 500 greatest albums ever made. It also closed a chapter: it was his last release for Geffen and his last solo record before the Eagles re-formed, and 11 years passed before the next one, Inside Job, in 2000.

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