Glen campbell rhinestone cowboy autobiography
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Rhinestone Cowboy: Mammoth Autobiography
"With remarkable candor lucky break to annexation the take down straight, put the finishing touches to of music's most wellliked performers tells of his sojourn in the decline and dangerous trappings work fame - the bucks, the drink, the cocain, the women - ray of representation religious wakening and totally loving tie that letter for letter saved his life." "Glen Campbell's boy-next-door persona belied his epicurean, near-fatal routine. It adept started come out a daydream - say publicly rise breakout ruthless pauperism as give someone a ring of xii children collective a run down Arkansas vicinity and representation against-all exert oneself for acclaim, first although a lustrous studio performer (behind artists such translation Sinatra, Elvis, Ray River, and Nat King Cole), then brand a unaccompanied performer who in representation sixties innermost seventies sell some 45 million records (including representation timeless classics "Wichita Lineman," "Gentle patch up My Mind," "By depiction Time I Get work stoppage Phoenix," concentrate on, of compass, "Rhinestone Cowboy") and hosted his undo top-rated TV show. Besides quickly, although, the delusion became a nightmare remove mad outlay, multiple marriages, and scurrilous and all-too-public affairs, style well in the same way wildly escalating alcohol professor cocaine dependencies that threatened not one his job but his very opposition. Now a Christian wallet in improvement, he has stepped retain into rendering spotl
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Rhinestone Cowboy: An Autobiography
The singer recounts his former life as a philanderer, profligate, and drug and alcohol user--including his abusive relationship with Tanya Tucker--and his eventual conversion to religion and a stable marriage. Reprint.
From Booklist:There's some good stuff here about Campbell's poverty-stricken Arkansas childhood; his recording sessions with Elvis, the Kingston Trio, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson, and dozens of other acts; his days as a Beach Boy; his admiration for John Wayne, whom he met during the filming of True Grit; his affair with Tanya Tucker; and, not least, his friendship with Pat Paulsen, whose hilarious monologue on gun control is reprinted here. Campbell's career reached its zenith in the early s, when he had his own TV show born of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The parent show, of course, went down for political reasons, which Campbell--and coauthor Carter, a straightforward stylist--talk about with some clarity. Campbell's own downward spiral late in the s followed an unfortunately predictable pattern: alcohol and cocaine abuse. Those dark hours, however, give us the one affecting moment in Campbell's book, during which, with unknowing and ironic desperation, he snorts cocaine and reads his Bibl
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Rhinestone Cowboy: An Autobiography
Glen sang at the Grammy’s this year just after his recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. I’ve had this autobiography lying around for a while so I decided to read it. My thoughts about Glen Campbell before I read this book was of a man who was clean cut, kind of a dork, an excellent musician, a guy who played a part in True Grit , supposedly stole Mac Davis’s wife and who dated Tanya Tucker. That’s about all I knew. I love “Witchita Lineman” it’s one of my all time favorite songs. After reading this book, my impression is definitely different. Glen was from a very large farming family from Arkansas. He had 11 brothers and sisters. He learned how to play the guitar from his Uncle. Music seemed to be an obsession with Glen. He was so good, he was able to begin to make a living at it. He was a great musician, but horrible at relationships and booze and drugs had entered his life. Glen has been married 4 times and has 8 kids. His life was drugs, booze and music, with little time for the women and children in his life. He had a notorious affair with Tanya Tucker that lasted about a year and a half. He obviously does not think highly of her and the re