Jackson Browne

Known for ActingBorn 1948-10-09 (age 77)Heidelberg, Germany

Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta "Berbie" Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany; and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three, Browne and his family moved to his grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino, in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens, he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".Read more

Movies & web series

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions

Jackson Browne: Going Home

No Nukes

Rockpalast

The Making of Sun City

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested

The Story of Plastic

Laurel Canyon

The Eagles - Earlybird Live Usa 1974 & Europe 1973

Rock Concert

The Simpsons

Nico Icon

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues

History of the Eagles

Immediate Family

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True

Troubadours

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

The Max Headroom Show

Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute

David Crosby: Remember My Name

Incident at Oglala

The Velvet Underground

Echo in the Canyon

Station to Station

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Saturday Night Live

Jackson Browne: VH-1 Storytellers

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

Austin City Limits

Trudell

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute

Jackson Browne with Special Guest Sara Watkins Live

The Ski Bum

All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman

Really Good Rejects

Linda and the Mockingbirds