1. Clyde Jackson Browne was born on October 9,1948 and is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States.
64 Facts About Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne wrote "These Days" as a 16-year-old; the song became a minor hit for the German singer and Andy Warhol protege Nico in 1967.
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Jackson Browne wrote several songs for fellow Southern California bands the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Eagles, the latter of whom had their first Billboard Top 40 hit in 1972 with the Browne co-written song "Take It Easy".
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Jackson Browne had successful albums through the 1980s, including the 1980 album Hold Out, which was his only number 1 album; the non-album single "Somebody's Baby", which was used in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and 1983's Lawyers in Love, which included the hit single "Tender Is the Night".
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Jackson Browne was born October 9,1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Jackson Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper.
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Jackson Browne attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966.
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Jackson Browne was in his friend Pamela Polland's band, Gentle Soul for a short time.
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Jackson Browne left the Dirt Band after a few months and moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where he became a staff writer for Elektra's publishing company, Nina Music, before he was eighteen.
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Jackson Browne reported on musical events in New York City with his friends Greg Copeland and Adam Saylor.
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In 1968, following his breakup with Nico, Jackson Browne returned to Los Angeles, where he formed a folk band with Ned Doheny and Jack Wilce.
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Jackson Browne did not release his own versions of these early songs until years later.
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In 1971, Browne signed with his manager David Geffen's Asylum Records and released Jackson Browne produced and engineered by Richard Orshoff, which included the piano-driven "Doctor My Eyes", which entered the Top Ten in the US singles chart.
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Jackson Browne's work began to demonstrate a reputation for memorable melody, insightful, often very personal lyrics, and a talent for his arrangements in composition.
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When touring in 1975, Jackson Browne was accompanied by his wife Phyllis and one-year-old son Ethan.
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Jackson Browne's character was even more apparent in his next album, The Pretender.
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In spring of 1978, Jackson Browne appeared near a nuclear reprocessing plant in Barnwell, South Carolina, to perform a free concert the night before a civil disobedience action; he did not participate in the action.
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Shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, during March 1979, Jackson Browne joined with several musician friends to found the antinuclear organization Musicians United for Safe Energy.
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Jackson Browne was arrested while protesting against the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo.
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Jackson Browne wrote and recorded the song "The Rebel Jesus" with the Chieftains, which appeared on their 1991 Christmas album The Bells of Dublin.
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Jackson Browne sang a duet with Jann Arden, "Unloved", on her 1995 album Living Under June.
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Jackson Browne released his first album in six years, The Naked Ride Home in 2002, with a performance on Austin City Limits, featuring the recording with older familiar songs.
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In 2004, Jackson Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Jackson Browne participated in the Vote for Change tour during October 2004, playing a series of concerts in American swing states.
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Jackson Browne performed briefly at the Occupy Wall Street presence at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan on December 1,2011, to show his support for their cause.
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Jackson Browne is part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power.
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Jackson Browne made a cameo appearance in the 2007 film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
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On May 31,2008, Jackson Browne performed at the Artist for the Arts Foundation benefit at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica.
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Jackson Browne again performed there with Heart and other musician guest stars in 2009.
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In June 2008, Jackson Browne appeared alongside Noam Chomsky, Douglas Rushkoff, and 98 other acts in the film American Music: OFF THE RECORD.
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In September 2009, Jackson Browne joined artists including Fred Tackett, Inara George, and others in supporting orphans, foster and homeless children through Safety Harbor Kids Holiday Collection with the proceeds going to help educate at-risk youth.
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In January 2011, Jackson Browne won the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Best Live Performance Album category for Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, performed by himself and David Lindley.
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Jackson Browne contributed a cover of Buddy Holly's "True Love Ways" for a 2011 tribute album, Listen to Me: Buddy Holly.
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In January 2016, Jackson Browne endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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Jackson Browne plays himself and sings in episode 10 of the Showtime series Roadies.
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In March 2020, Jackson Browne released "A Little Soon to Say" as the first single from his then-as-yet-untitled upcoming fifteenth album.
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In March 2021, Jackson Browne collaborated with singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers for a new version of her song "Kyoto", released exclusively for Spotify.
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Ethan Jackson Browne has worked as a model and had small parts in two movies, Raising Helen and Hackers.
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Jackson Browne was with artist and environmental activist Dianna Cohen, a cofounding member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, through the mid-2000s.
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Jackson Browne was active in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, and founded MUSE with Bonnie Raitt and John Hall in 1979.
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Jackson Browne was an active member of the Abalone Alliance and the Alliance for Survival.
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Jackson Browne is part of the movement "Plastic Free Backstage".
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Jackson Browne received the Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts in 2010 for his environmental activism and efforts to make his tours more "green".
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Jackson Browne attended the TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch conference, performing a new song, "If I Could Be Anywhere", which laments mankind's destruction of the earth and giving hope to activism.
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Jackson Browne performed and sang the role of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a 1995 musical performance for charity alongside Roger Daltrey, Natalie Cole, Nathan Lane, and other stars.
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Jackson Browne covered John Lennon's "Oh My Love" to benefit Amnesty International's campaign to alleviate the crisis in Darfur.
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In 2008, Jackson Browne contributed to the album Songs for Tibet, an initiative to support Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and to publicize the human rights situation in Tibet.
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Jackson Browne held a benefit concert for the Rory David Deutsch Foundation which is dedicated to providing funding for brain tumor research and treatment.
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In October 2010, Jackson Browne performed at both days of the 24th Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert, a yearly fundraiser established by Neil Young.
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Jackson Browne appeared at the 2010 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California with Yoko Ono and Quincy Jones in support of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.
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On July 23,2013, Jackson Browne performed with the Kings of Leon and the Flaming Lips in Oklahoma City for Rock for Oklahoma, a benefit concert for Oklahoma tornado victims.
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In November 2013, Jackson Browne performed with students from School of Rock West LA and Burbank in a benefit concert for the Rock School Scholarship Fund, at the legendary Troubadour in West Hollywood.
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On October 25,2014, Jackson Browne performed at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, in a benefit concert for Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, a nonprofit providing mental health and co-occurring disorders treatment services.
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Jackson Browne provides exclusive music tracks for various charity and benefit albums, including Safety Harbor Kids Holiday Collection.
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Jackson Browne provided a live version of "Drums of War" for The People Speak Soundtrack.
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In 2002, Jackson Browne received the John Steinbeck Award, given to artists who exemplify the environmental and social values that Steinbeck believed in.
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On March 14,2004, Jackson Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen.
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In 2007, Jackson Browne was awarded the Chapin-World Hunger Year Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award.
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In 2008, Jackson Browne received the NARM Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award.
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In 2008, Jackson Browne received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in recognition of his lifetime in the arts and dedication as a social activist.
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Jackson Browne's award was presented by Awards Council member Senator Tom Daschle.
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In 2010, Jackson Browne received the Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts established to honor artists whose works have lifted the human spirit by conveying our profound spiritual and material connection to the Earth.
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Jackson Browne was the 2014 recipient of the GRAMMY Museum Jane Ortner Education Award.
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In 2018, Jackson Browne received the Gandhi Peace Award from the organization Promoting Enduring Peace.
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Jackson Browne is the first artist to receive the award.