Glen Campbell obituary

Versatile guitarist whose attractive tenor voice made Rhinestone Cowboy and Southern Nights into million-sellersThe singer and guitarist Glen Campbell, who has died aged 81, made his greatest artistic contribution as the principal interpreter of songs by Jimmy Webb, notably Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Galveston, all recorded in the late 1960s. The clarity of Campbell’s enunciation and the sweetness of his tenor voice brought out the poetry and emotion of the compositi