Lynne Sweeney: Everything About Jackson Browne’s Ex-wife

Lynne Sweeney currently stands as the ex-wife of Clyde Jackson Browne known by many as Jackson Browne. Jackson is an American musician, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. He has received several accolades for his work in the entertainment industry. Lynne and her now ex-husband were married but are currently divorced and living their separated lives.

Lynne Sweeney: Bio Summary

Lynne Sweeney is an Australian model who is widely known as the ex-wife of Jackson Browne. They met each other in Australia during a poolside bash. Lynne and Jackson were married in January 1981 and after 2 years of marriage, they decided to get separated.

They got divorced in 1983. Before their separation, the duo produced a son and named him Ryan Browne. Ryan Browne was born on January 28, 1982. He has been a bass player and singer in the band Sonny and the Sunsets since 2007. Lynne Sweeney has lived a private life and prefers to keep her personal life away from the spotlight.

Lynne Sweeney’s Ex-husband

Lynne Sweeney was previously married to Jackson Browne an American musician, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. He played with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the band recorded a number of his songs, including “These Days”, “Holding”, and “Shadow Dream Song”.

Jackson Browne released his self-titled debut album in 1972, which spawned two Top 40 hits of his own, “Doctor, My Eyes” and “Rock Me on the Water”. For his debut album, as well as for the next several albums and concert tours, he started working closely with The Section, a prolific session band that also worked with several other prominent singer-songwriters of the era.

Jackson Browne’s second album, For Everyman, was released in 1973, and while it lacked an enduring single, has been retrospectively assessed as some of his best work, appearing highly on several “Best Album of All Time” lists. His third album, Late for the Sky, was his most successful to that point, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and earning Browne his first Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

Jackson Browne’s fourth album, The Pretender, continued the pattern of each album topping the previous by peaking at number 5 on the album chart, and spawned the hit singles “Here Come Those Tears Again” and “The Pretender”. It would be the 1977 album Running on Empty, however, that would be his signature work, peaking at number 3 on the album chart, and remaining there for over a year.

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Both a live album and a concept album, the songs on the album explore the themes of life as a touring musician, and the album was recorded both on stage, and in places touring musicians spend time when not playing, such as hotel rooms, backstage, and in one case on a moving tour bus. The album produced two Top 40 singles, “Running on Empty” and “The Load-Out/Stay”, and many of the other tracks became popular radio hits on the AOR format.

Successful albums continued through the 1980s, including the 1980 album Hold Out, 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”.

In 1986, he released Lives in the Balance, which had several radio hits and included the introspective “In the Shape of a Heart”, which was inspired by the suicide of his first wife a decade prior.

Jackson Browne’s string of hit albums came to an end at that point, as his next several albums failed to produce a gold or platinum RIAA rating. He released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Very Best of Jackson Browne, released in conjunction with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004.

Lynne Sweeney’s ex-husband, Jackson’s most recent studio album is 2021’s Downhill from Everywhere, the follow-up to 2014’s Standing in the Breach, which included the first fully realized version of his song “The Birds of St. Marks”, a song he had written at age 18. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him 37th in its list of the “100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time”.