Post by ET_Explorer on Aug 9, 2017 3:30:34 GMT
Glen Campbell, the sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper who became a
recording, television and movie star in the 1960s and ’70s, waged a publicized battle
with alcohol and drugs and gave his last performances while in the early stages
of Alzheimer’s disease, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was 81.
Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles southwest of Little Rock, Ark.,
between Billstown and Delight, where his father sharecropped 120 acres of cotton. He was the
seventh son in a family of eight boys and four girls. When he was 4, his father ordered him a
three-quarter-size guitar for $5 from Sears, Roebuck. He was performing on local radio stations by the time he was 6.
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recording, television and movie star in the 1960s and ’70s, waged a publicized battle
with alcohol and drugs and gave his last performances while in the early stages
of Alzheimer’s disease, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was 81.
Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles southwest of Little Rock, Ark.,
between Billstown and Delight, where his father sharecropped 120 acres of cotton. He was the
seventh son in a family of eight boys and four girls. When he was 4, his father ordered him a
three-quarter-size guitar for $5 from Sears, Roebuck. He was performing on local radio stations by the time he was 6.
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