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Glen Campbell playing guitar as host of the NBC television show “The Midnight Special” in 1975.
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Glen Campbell
Died on August 8, 2017 at age 81
The sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper, Mr. Campbell 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.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.