His early country-tinged tracks featured backing ... nervous breakdown forced him to retire from the road. Campbell’s tenure as a Beach Boy was short-lived, and by the end of the year Bruce ...

Glen Campbell, a world-class, once-in-a-generation music virtuoso whose instrument just happened to be guitar and whose native style was radio-friendly country & western, has died. He was 81.

On April 11 1966, Glen Campbell was drafted in as a last ... Likely, it was quite the culture shock for a self-described “country boy” from The Natural State. Born in 1936 into a sharecropping ...