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Produced the Eagles' 1972 debut album, and co-wrote many of the tracks.

His second wife, model Lynne Sweeney, divorced him and returned to her native Australia after he started a public romance with actress Daryl Hannah.

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

Son Ethan Zane Browne born November 2, 1973.

Son Ryan Daniel Browne born January 28, 1982.

Produced albums for Warren Zevon.

Co-wrote Eagles' 1972 debut hit "Take It Easy" with his close friend and one-time neighbor Glenn Frey. Browne released his version of that song a year later on his second album "For Everyman".

In fall of 2004, he participated in the Vote for Change concert tour organized to encourage the defeat of George W. Bush in the U.S. presidential election.

In 1986, during the height of the Reagan administration, his album "Lives In the Balance" was released, with stridently political songs critical of then-current situations. Elektra Records refused to produce a video for the album's title track, so Browne produced one out of his own pocket.

His first wife, Phyllis Major, committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.

The back cover of his 1976 album "The Pretender" shows Kenneth Rexroth's translation of Pablo Neruda's poem "Brown and Agile Child".

Has been credited for discovering Stevie Ray Vaughan and his backing band Double Trouble, as well as helping them get a record deal, after having seen them perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1982. SRV and Double Trouble would record their 1983 debut album "Texas Flood" at Browne's personal recording studio in Los Angeles.

Jackson Browne attended the 2nd annual HatcH audiovisual festival in Bozeman, MT, in October 2005 to present the HatcH Gibson Guitar New Musician Award to Chris Webster.

Dated Eve Babitz.

Lives in Los Angeles, California.