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Glen Campbell, a guitar prodigy and ballad singer who dominated the polished, string-swelling countrypolitan sound of the late 1960s and 1970s and cultivated a clean-cut image at odds with his once-stormy personal life, died Aug. 8 in Nashville, Tenn. He was 81. His publicist confirmed the death to The Associated Press. |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81. |
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Gentle On My Mind Galveston Wichita Lineman and Rhinestone Cowboy and that landed him in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Campbell's death was confirmed Tuesday by Tim Plumley, a representative at Universal Music. Plumley issued this statement from Campbell's family: "It is with the heaviest of.... |
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Gentle On My Mind Galveston Wichita Lineman and Rhinestone Cowboy and that landed him in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Campbell's death was confirmed Tuesday by Tim Plumley, a representative at Universal Music. Plumley issued this statement from Campbell's family: "It is with the heaviest of.... |
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At a time when the grittier "outlaw" movement of Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson was on the rise, Campbell vaulted to fame as an unabashed sentimentalist whose songs were aimed squarely at the American heartland. His best-known recordings included John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" (which became.... |
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Campbell's family said the singer died Tuesday morning in Nashville and publicist Sandy Brokaw confirmed the news. No cause was immediately given. Campbell announced in June 2011 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and that it was in its early stages at that time. |
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"I spent the early parts of my life looking at the north end of a southbound mule and it didn't take long to figure out that a guitar was a lot lighter than a plow handle," he said in a late 1970s press bio. Each member of Campbell's family played guitar, and he received a $5 Sears & Roebuck guitar when he was 4 years old. |
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By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81. |
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Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81. Campbell's family said the singer died Tuesday morning in.... |
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Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81. Campbell's family said the singer died Tuesday morning in.... |
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NASHVILLE -- Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81. Campbell's family said the singer died Tuesday.... |
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