Campbell was born in 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, the seventh son in a sharecropping family of 12 kids.
Nominated for one Academy Award.
Campbell’s musical career dated back to the early years of rock “n roll”. “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” started a long association with songwriter Jimmy Webb who would go on to craft many of Campbell’s hit in the 70s. “So, that is the way I look at it”.
In June, Campbell – a fixture on country music charts since the 1960s – released his final album, “Adios”.
1966 – Plays on the Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” album. Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers saw the program and asked Campbell if he’d like to host a summertime series, “The Summer Brothers Smothers Show“.
1969 – Co-stars in the western, “True Grit“, with John Wayne. By the Time I Get to Phoenix, the album, earned Campbell the Album of the Year Grammy for 1968.
1994 – His autobiography, “Rhinestone Cowboy“, written with Tom Carter, is published.
Country music icon Glen Campbell has died, a rep from Universal Music Group confirms to Rolling Stone. He vowed to quit drinking after a 2003 DUI arrest.
In a 2011 interview with the Guardian shortly after going public with his diagnosis, Campbell was upbeat about the prospect of still releasing new music.
2012 – Receives a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Over a three year period from 1967 to 1969 Glen Campbell recorded an incredible 10 studio albums.