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Glen Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American
pop-country music|country singer, best known for a
series of 1960s and 1970s hits, including
"Galveston", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "By the Time I
Get to Phoenix", and "Southern Nights".

Campbell is a native of Delight, Arkansas|Delight,
Arkansas and began playing the guitar as a youth
without ever learning to read music. By the time
he was eighteen, Campbell was touring the south as
part of the Western Wranglers. In 1958, Campbell
moved to Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles to
become a session musician.

Campbell's period as a session musician was
successful, and he played with Bobby Darin, Rick
Nelson, The Beach Boys (for which he was a touring
member for a while in 1965), Merle Haggard, The
Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin, the Association, and The Mamas & the
Papas, among others. His debut single was the
moderate success "Turn Around, Look at Me". "Too
Late to Worry — Too Blue to Cry" and
"Kentucky Means Paradise" were similarly popular
within only a small section of the country
audience. By 1967, Campbell was ready to break
through to the mainstream with "Gentle on My Mind"
(written by John Hartford) and "I Wanna Live" in
1968 ( see 1968 in music).

Campbell's biggest hits in 1968–1969 came on
evocative songs written by Jimmy Webb: "By the
Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", Where's
The Playground Suzie?," and "Galveston". 
Campbell's voice and phrasing conveyed the songs'
emotional content perfectly.  The pair's tunefully
sublime partnership is nicely chronicled on 1974's
"Reuinion" album.   

After he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for the
Smothers Brothers television show, Campbell had
his own weekly variety show, The Glen Campbell
Goodtime Hour, from January 1969 through June
1972. At the height of his popularity, a 1970
biography by Freda Kramer, The Glen Campbell
Story, was published. 

During the early 1970s, Campbell released a long
series of singles and appeared in the movies True
Grit with John Wayne and Kim Darby and Norwood
with Kim Darby and Joe Namath. In the mid-1970s he
had more big hits with "Rhinestone Cowboy",
"Southern Nights", and "Sunflower".
 
Subsequently, Campbell began having trouble
reaching the charts, and began to abuse drugs. By
1989 in music|1989, however, he had quit drugs and
was regularly reaching the country Top Ten; songs
like "She's Gone, Gone, Gone" were extremely
popular. In the 1990s, Campbell mostly retired
from recording, though he has not quit entirely.
In 1994, his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy, was
published.

Campbell returned to the charts in 2002 with a hit
remake of "Rhinestone Cowboy" with UK dance
producers Rikki & Daz.

Marriages include
*1955–1959 to Diane Kirk, daughter Debra Kay
*1959–1976 to Billie Jean Nunley, daughter
Kelli Glen, son William Travis
*1976–1982 to Sarah Davis 
*1982 to present, Kimberly (Kim) Woollen, son
Nicklaus Caledonia, son Shanon Webb, daughter
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fawkes_tears/
Ashley Noel

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0004794 | name=Glen Campbell 
*http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/default.asp?artist
ID=1004322 His page at Launch
*http://www.glencampbellshow.com Official site
*http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/campbellmug
1.html The Smoking Gun Archive Country singer Glen
Campbell was arrested in November 2003 
on drunk driving and hit and run charges.

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