“THE VOICE OF THE ’70s JUST CONFESSED HIS BIGGEST SECRET.” For years, people guessed what really happened between Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt. Their songs felt close, but their lives stayed quiet. Now, after all this time, Browne finally spoke. He didn’t raise his voice. He didn’t explain much. He just said Linda wasn’t a muse. She was the heartbeat of that era. You can almost picture it. Long studio nights. A look held too long. Words never written down. It wasn’t fame that tied them together. It was something softer. Something unfinished. And somehow, that makes their silence feel louder than any song.
Jackson Browne & Linda Ronstadt’s “One More Song” (1974): A Duet That Became a Memory In 1974, during the golden…