Glen Campbell was offered a permanent spot in the Beach Boys after filling in for Brian Wilson, but Campbell turned it down.

We all have this capacity for these huge ... "A couple of weeks later I ran into him [Glen Campbell] somewhere, and I said, 'I guess you guys didn't like the song.'" he recalled.

Born in 1936 in Arkansas, Glen Campbell moved to Albuquerque, N.M., at 18 years old to join his uncle's band. After two years playing with his uncle and in his own band, the Western Wranglers ...

Singer Brad Paisley praised Campbell "for the artistry, grace & class you brought to country music". "You were a shining light in so many ways," he tweeted The son of a sharecropper, Glen Travis ...

Kids may not know "Wichita Lineman," and boomers may have forgotten his hot-shit 12-string flurries, but singer/songwriter/TV star Glen Campbell is ... might stir that in you, too.