Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017
    PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017
    PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017
    Ebook130 pages1 hour

    PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017

    By The Editors of PEOPLE

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Memories of a music legend

    You know the voice, you know the songs: from "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Gentle on My Mind," "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and more, the music of Glen Campbell touched so many American lives. The extraordinary musician and showman sold more than 45 million records over a six-decade career that included a stint as a Beach Boy. He inspired us with his courageous battle with Alzheimer's, selling out arena after arena even as he fought off the disease. Now you can remember the star and hitmaker with a new special edition from PEOPLE, Glen Campbell: A Life in Song. This beautiful tribute is packed with photographs and rich storytelling from throughout Campbell's life and little-known personal history, as well as great stories and highlights from his Grammy-studded career and wild relationship with country star Tanya Tucker. Beloved as a guitarist, singer, TV star and actor, Campbell overcame drug and alcohol addiction to triumph musically and personally again and again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeople
    Release dateSep 8, 2017
    ISBN9781547840571
    PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017

    Read more from The Editors Of People

    Related to PEOPLE Glen Campbell

    Related ebooks

    Popular Culture & Media Studies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Royal Blood

      Dec 7, 2021

      Royal Blood
      5 min read

    • Article

      Alice In Chains

      Apr 30, 2019

      Alice In Chains
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Def New Sound

      Jul 1, 2022

      A Def New Sound
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Power And The Glory

      Oct 12, 2021

      The Power And The Glory
      17 min read

    • Article

      Steven Yeun

      Apr 30, 2021

      Before Steven Yeun’s Glenn Rhee died, he made a promise to his lover: “Maggie, I’ll find you…” Instead, the 37-year-old actor has devoted the time since his years as The Walking Dead’s big-hearted zombie survivor to finding roles that upend expectati

      1 min read

    • Article

      From Full House to Our House

      Jan 27, 2022

      From Full House to Our House
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Stroll Down Abbey Road

      Jul 3, 2019

      Although it features some of their sharpest and most iconic tracks, The Beatles never banked too hard on 1969’s Abbey Road. Technically their final studio album (Let It Be came out a year later, but was recorded largely in ’68), its marketing campaig

      4 min read

    • Article

      Marvin Gaye

      Nov 11, 2021

      Marvin Gaye
      4 min read

    • Article

      25 Top Shows

      Jun 29, 2023

      25 Top Shows
      1 min read

    • Article

      Robert Plant

      Nov 12, 2019

      Robert Plant
      16 min read

    • Article

      Gay Ole Opry

      Aug 3, 2021

      Gay Ole Opry
      3 min read

    • Article

      Zakk’s Dirty Dozen

      Nov 30, 2021

      Zakk’s Dirty Dozen
      7 min read

    • Article

      Van Halen

      May 28, 2019

      Van Halen
      2 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      May 19, 2022

      It’s almost summer, and we’re all headed out to enjoy the weather and the longer, warmer days. But that also makes your TV viewing time indoors more precious! We take the word “GUIDE” in our name seriously, so we’re introducing a few changes this sum

      1 min read

    • Article

      First Look

      Jul 21, 2022

      First Look
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nirvana Gems

      Jan 27, 2020

      Nirvana Gems
      7 min read

    • Article

      Preaching To The Perverted

      Oct 12, 2023

      Preaching To The Perverted
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Size Of It

      Sep 14, 2021

      The Size Of It
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for PEOPLE Glen Campbell

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      PEOPLE Glen Campbell - The Editors of PEOPLE

      years."

      Pictures of a Lifetime

      Over his long career and in the sweep of his strumming, strutting life, Glen Campbell left behind so many enduring images—and an indelible impression

      DOWN-HOME VIRTUOSO Campbell couldn’t read music but dazzled on the guitar and also mastered banjo, bass and mandolin. I didn’t limit my talent by pursuing one particular kind of music, he said. I didn’t limit it by pursuing jazz or pursuing country or pursuing pop. Music was my world before they started putting a label on it.

      STRINGS ATTACHED Campbell’s first guitar was a $5 model his dad ordered from Sears, Roebuck—but by 1968, on the verge of superstardom, he could afford a more plentiful personal collection.

      I wanted to become the best jazz guitarist in the world

      —Glen Campbell

      DRESSING FOR HIS SUCCESS Campbell preps for an appearance on the Hollywood Palace variety show in 1968. It was the era of long-haired hippies and Haight-Ashbury—but also a breakout time for the clean-cut Campbell, on the strength of chart-toppers like Gentle on My Mind, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Wichita Lineman.

      STUDIO STALWART Before his monster solo success, Campbell (in ’67) was a highly coveted session man, backing up an array of music legends including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and the Beach Boys. I would have been content to just do studio work, he recalled. Making it on my own never really entered my mind.

      DADDY DUTY Campbell tends to Kelli, his daughter with second wife Billie, in 1968. That same year he wrote a song in her honor—Kelli Hoedown, an instrumental released as the B-side of his single Dreams of the Everyday Housewife.

      HARMONIC CONVERGENCE Despite this domestic pose, Campbell (in ’68 with three of his eight children—from left, Travis, Debby and Kelli) was largely an absentee father. When daughter Debby, also a singer, later toured with him—and served as an unofficial assistant—it was a revelation. I remember the day we just sat there and he said, ‘Wow, so this is what it’s like to have a relationship with one of your kids,’ she recalled. He didn’t know because he was always gone.

      ALL DUDED UP Campbell got decked out for Capitol Records’ Rhinestone Cowboy album shoot in 1975. Some people have said that I can ‘hear’ a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential, he said. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also ‘feel’ one.

      It’s upbeat and fun to play. It reminds me, ‘Don’t get too big for your britches’

      —Glen Campbell on ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’

      SETTING OFF SPARKS Drugs clouded Campbell’s tumultuous two-year (1980-81) relationship with Tanya Tucker (playing a gig at New York City’s Rodeo club). In our sick slavery to things of the flesh, we were either having sex or fighting,’’ he said. Tucker recalled him as insecure. I would say to him, ‘Glen Campbell, you’re the best singer, guitarist, musician. . . . You’re so good-looking and you have everything—I mean everything,’ " she told People in 1981. " ‘What do you have to be insecure about?’

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1