Glen Campbell, the singer of Rhinestone Cowboy, has died. Heres a look at his most famous song. Country legend Glen Campbell, whose crossover hits Gentle on My Mind, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Rhinestone Cowboy forged a lasting bridge. Nude celebrity MP4 movie clips of Jessica Alba. To watch the full PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Grammy Red Carpet special, tune in to the PeopleEntertainment Weekly Network PEN. Go to PEOPLE. comPEN. Glen Campbell, Rhinestone Cowboy Singer, Dead at 8. Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 2. Courtesy Forever 21. You can now swipe Kims style for under 5. Buy It Forever 21 Rhinestone Faux Lip Ring, 3. Top 4. 0 hits including Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman and By the Time I Get to Phoenix, died Tuesday. He was 8. 1. A rep for Universal Music Group, Campbells record label, confirmed the singers death to Rolling Stone. During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 4. In 1. 96. 8, one of his biggest years, he outsold the Beatles. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, at the age of 8. Alzheimers disease, the singers family said in a statement. BNBL5k63yKoknVtXrVObB8SCRKw=/540x720/v1.bjs3OTUwMTI7ajsxNzUxNDsxMjAwOzU0MDs3MjA' alt='Rhinestone Full Movie Part 1' title='Rhinestone Full Movie Part 1' />Campbell was a rare breed in the music business, with various careers as a top level studio guitarist, chart topping singer and hit television host. His late career battle with Alzheimers he allowed a documentary crew to film on his final tour for the 2. Ill Be Me  made him a public face for the disease, a role President Bill Clinton suggested would one day be remembered even more than his music. He had that beautiful tenor with a crystal clear guitar sound, playing lines that were so inventive, Tom Pettytold Rolling Stone during a 2. Campbell. It moved me. Campbell was born in 1. Billstown, Arkansas, the seventh son in a sharecropping family of 1. We used to watch TV by candlelight, Campbell told Rolling Stone in 2. In his youth, Campbell started playing guitar and became obsessed with jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. He dropped out of school when he was 1. Wyoming with an uncle who was a musician, playing gigs together at rural bars. He soon moved to Los Angeles and by 1. Wrecking Crew, a group of session pros. In 1. 96. 3 alone, he appeared on 5. Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man, Elvis Presleys Viva Las Vegas, Merle Haggards Mama Tried and the Righteous Brothers Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling. Id have to pick cotton for a year to make what Id make in a week in L. A., he said. I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat. It makes you drive the song more. Youre ahead of the beat, but youre not. Fellow Wrecking Crew member Leon Russell called Campbell the best guitar player Id heard before or since. Occasionally wed play with 5. His deal was he didnt read music, so they would play it one time for him, and he had it. In late 1. Brian Wilson had a nervous breakdown on tour with the Beach Boys, and the band called on Campbell to replace him on bass and high harmonies. I took Brians place and that was just. I was in heaven then hog heaven Campbell remarked. He fit right in, said Wilson. His main forte is hes a great guitar player, but hes even a better singer than all the rest. He could sing higher than I could Wilson even wrote an early song, I Guess Im Dumb, for Campbell. His first hit was a cover of Buffy Sainte Maries antiwar song Universal Soldier. But Campbells own political views tended to be conservative. The people who are advocating burning draft cards should be hung, he said in 1. Campbell had his first major hit in 1. By the Time I Get to Phoenix, written by Jimmy Webb, an L. A. kid with a knack for intricate ballads. Glens vocal power and technique was the perfect vehicle for these, in a way, very sentimental and romantic songs. And I think that you know we made some records that were very nearly perfect. Wichita Lineman is a very near perfect pop record, Webb said. I think in the process that Glen was a prime mover in the whole creation of the country crossover phenomenon that made the careers of Kenny Rogers and some other. The tune kicked off a working relationship that included the haunting Vietnam War ballad Galveston, the tender Gentle on My Mind and Wichita Lineman, Campbells first Top 1. With swelling orchestral arrangements and slick production, the songs werent exactly considered hip in the Sixties. They felt packaged for a middle of the road, older crowd, said Tom Petty. At first, you go, Oh, I dont know about that. But it was such pure, good stuff that you had to put off your prejudices and learn to love it. It taught me not to have those prejudices. In 1. Campbell won Grammys in both the country and pop categories, including Best Country Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male, Best Country Western Song and Best Vocal Performance, Male. In the summer of 1. Campbell guest hosted the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The successful appearance led to his own variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which he hosted from 1. Artists like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt performed on the show, which also gave a national platform to rising country stars like. Willie Nelson. He exposed us to a big part of the world that would have never had the chance to see us, said Nelson. Hes always been a big help to me. A young Steve Martin was a writer on the show. He just went along with it, Martin said in Ill Be Me. He was completely game, and completely fun, and had kind of a down home sense of humor. It was just an incredible treat for us young writers to be introduced to talent at that level at such a young age. Campbells boyish charisma led John Wayne to cast him in a co starring role in 1. True Grit. He later said that his acting was so amateurish that he gave John Wayne that push to win the Academy Award. But the good times didnt last His show was canceled his first feature film, 1. Norwood, flopped and the hits dried up for a few years. Then, Campbell scored a smash with 1. Rhinestone Cowboy. It began a comeback that included hits Country Boy You Got Your Feet in L. A. and Southern Nights. The hits slowed down again in the Eighties in the Nineties he opened up the Glen Campbell Goodtime Theatre in Branson, Missouri. Campbell was married four times, and has five sons and three daughters. In the early 1. 98. Campbell made tabloid headlines with a 1. Tanya Tucker, who was 2. In 1. 98. 1, he became a born again Christian and in 1. Kimberly Woollen, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, who helped Campbell clean up his life. In 2. 00. 3, he was arrested for a hit and run, an incident that ended with him allegedly kneeing a police officer in the thigh right before he was released. Campbell pleaded guilty to extreme drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, and spent 1. In 2. 01. 1, Campbell, then 7. Alzheimers disease. In June of that year, he announced he was retiring from music due to the disease. He released his final album of original music Ghoston the Canvas with guests Billy Corgan, Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan and embarked on a farewell tour with three of his children backing him. He played 1. 51 shows on his final tour. The audience being there somehow triggers his ability to access that other part of his brain, U2s The Edge said. Its incredible. This tour of his just says, Here I am, heres whats happening to me, Clinton said. Im going out with a smile on my face and a song in my heart so you will know, and that may be more of his enduring legacy than all the music he made. He spent his final years in an assisted living facility. His friends and children would often spend days with him playing him his old songs. Watch Spirit Camp HIGH Quality Definitons there. Music utilizes all of the brain, not just one little section of it, Woollen noted. Everythings firing all at once. Its really stimulating and probably helped him plateau and not progress as quickly as he might have. I could tell from his spirits that it was good for him. It made him really happy. It was good for the whole family to continue touring and to just keep living our lives. And we hope it encourages other people to do the same. Earlier this year, Campbell released Adis, his final studio album, a collection of mainly cover songs by Bob Dylan, Harry Nilsson and others, recorded after his Goodbye Tour. Almost every time he sat down with a guitar, these were his go to songs, daughter Ashley Campbell told Rolling Stone Country.