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Glen Campbell
- Thread starter LamieRobertson
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
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Let's not get the thread bogged down with silly comments ..move on Cheggers please
It's a good thing Glen was so "gentle on your mind."
Cheggers
Active member
No, a keyboard
Will do. Thanks all for being so welcoming.
Actually, don't go. I'm intrigued as to what music you like, or call good?
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,642
Dougie answered that previously
He'd be a legend even without his own singing career:
"Campbell made his name in the music business as one of the top session guitarists in Los Angeles, and helped hone producer Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound technique.
He toured for three months in 1965 with the Beach Boys, filling in for singer Brian Wilson after he suffered a breakdown.
Campbell played on hundreds of tracks including Daydream Believer by The Monkees, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling by The Righteous Brothers, Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra and Viva Las Vegas by Elvis Presley."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40870474
"Campbell made his name in the music business as one of the top session guitarists in Los Angeles, and helped hone producer Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound technique.
He toured for three months in 1965 with the Beach Boys, filling in for singer Brian Wilson after he suffered a breakdown.
Campbell played on hundreds of tracks including Daydream Believer by The Monkees, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling by The Righteous Brothers, Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra and Viva Las Vegas by Elvis Presley."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40870474
severnside gull
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I think that many people don't differentiate between the many forms of dementia but there are commonalities including memory loss but also behaviour changes. Physical decline is almost the final and most merciful stage when the person we knew and who knew us has long departed. I watched Glenn's last performance on TV when he had to have a lyric sheet in front of him but still couldn't manage many of the words to songs he had been playing for decades. He was diagnosed in 2011 and with average life expectancy between 4 and 10 years and having not been seen since 2015 his passing is no surprise but no less sad for that.
ferring seagull
Well-known member
- Dec 30, 2010
- 4,607
Saw him in Eastbourne in the early eighties - he was a great performer and even played the bagpipes on stage as a throw back to his origins.
Some memorable songs in his time !
Some memorable songs in his time !
I first heard him when I was around 7 or 8. I liked him him until I was aged about 13, when I discovered that he wasn't cool and then spent a decade deriding him. For the last 30 years I've admired his technical singing ability, his song writing, and his soul. He's just about the only country singer I like at all, but him I really liked, cool or not. RIP. Thanks for some great songs, and some great sideburns.
Very sad - Alzheimer's is a ******* of a condition.
RIP Glen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6J99mWFqMU
- Apr 5, 2014
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GT49er
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To be fair, Wichita Lineman and By the Time I get to Phoenix - that's probably the only two I'll remember him for, but I do realise he had a terrific musical career - Beach Boys, Monkees, and heaven knows how many other great records he contributed to. There as a lovely interview with him on Radio 4, a year or two back, when he made hi last visit to the UK - came across as a real gentleman. I even forgave him for writing Rhinestone Cowboy for scores of talentless 'musicians' to belt out in pubs on a Friday night!
RIP..........still on the line.
This is one of my favourites, originally written by Jimmy Webb as an Anti Vietnam War song but slightly altered lyrically in Campbell's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbTHlTmDX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbTHlTmDX8
I guess that a rodeo Cowboy is a showman, a bit like in the circus. The rhinestones would be sown onto their riding duds, Think of the rhinestone suits of Elvis in his later days.......lol
Mind you a real young showman really rode those angry critters!
You aren't very good at this posting lark are you
No, a keyboard
- Apr 5, 2014
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I thought it was a song about an addiction to a heartburn medicine.
burnee54
East Upper Hermit
RIP Glen. You certainly knew how to put a Jimmy Webb song across.
Galveston
By the time I get to Pheonix
Wichita Lineman
Galveston
By the time I get to Pheonix
Wichita Lineman