Trivia / Jackson Browne

• Ascended Fanon: Jackson Browne's Self-Titled Album had a cover design styled after a water bag, with the words "Saturate Before Using" on it. Fans began to refer to the album as if that was the title. When it was issued on CD, "Saturate Before Using" was printed on the label and the spine, making it the title.
• Creator Breakdown: Browne's first wife, Phyllis, committed suicide just before he started recording The Pretender.
• Mentor Archetype: To Warren Zevon and, to a lesser extent, Eagles.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: While it has never been proven that he abused Daryl Hannah and he never faced charges over it, the allegation effectively ended his career as a commercial artist and has continued to hang over his head thanks to its endurance in popular culture.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000 in particular loved referencing Browne whenever a character was shown on-screen attacking a woman.
  • Joni Mitchell, another one of Browne's ex-lovers, released the song "Not to Blame" in the wake of the incident. It has been interpreted to be about Browne, and more sinisterly, accuses him of being a serial abuser who drove his ex-wife to suicide. (Their own relationship was pretty tumultuous; it ended with Mitchell attempting suicide.) Mitchell denies this, but it still contributed to the damage Browne's public image took after the incident.
    "The story hit the news / From coast to coast / They said you beat the girl / You loved the most / Your charitable acts / Seemed out of place / With the beauty / With your fist marks on her face."
  • As late as 2003, more than ten years after the incident, Browne was still fighting back the allegation, when he sued 20th Century Fox for including the claim he beat Hannah in a film about John F. Kennedy, Jr. Fox settled the claim by apologizing and editing out the line of dialogue.
• Similarly Named Works: Both Browne and New Order have a song titled "World in Motion".

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