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Legendary Country Star and Christian, Glen Campbell Has Died at 81, Following a 'Long and Courageous' Battle with Alzheimer's"I love singing Gospel music and hymns. Being a Christian I love to tell people about Christ and what He's done for me and can do for them." -Glen Campbell. [Charisma News] Famed country music star and renowned Christian Glen Campbell died Tuesday. He was 81. (Photo: Glen Campbell/via official Facebook page) The "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman," singer suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for several years before passing away at an Alzheimer's facility in Nashville surrounded by his family. "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 81, following his long and courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease," according to a family statement. Campbell was a musical [legend] who impacted multiple genres. According to Rolling Stone: Campbell was married four times, and has five sons and three daughters. Despite his career successes, he struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction. In the early Eighties, he had a tempestuous, high-profile relationship with country singer Tanya Tucker, who was 22 years his junior. In 1981 he became a Born-Again Christian and in 1982 he married Kimberly Woollen, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, who helped Campbell clean up his life. He eventually turned to hymns. "I love singing Gospel music and hymns. Being a Christian I love to tell people about Christ and what He's done for me and can do for them," Campbell said in 1990. But he still struggled with the party scene that came with musical fame. He says he was a raging cocaine addict before his faith rescued him. He told Guideposts: When I got home Kim was heartbroken and furious, and I was afraid she was going to take Cal and leave. I can't say I would have blamed her but I think it would have torn my heart out. As I had done so many times before, I begged the Lord to deliver me. I don't understand why, but that day it was as if Jesus reached down and pulled my hand back from the cocaine. I never touched the drug again. (Photo: Glen Campbell sings "Rhinestone Cowboy" during his tribute at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California/ Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo/via Charisma News) But he still struggled with alcohol. He told the magazine: When God lifted my obsession for alcohol it was as if He raised the curtain on a whole new life. He changed me in ways I never could have changed myself, and that is the key. Kim and I have a real marriage now, an honest marriage. Today I truly have a peace "which passeth all understanding." I really don't understand it. But I thank the Lord all the time. I am a man richly blessed, despite myself. For all that God has given me, there is nothing for which I am more thankful than Kim. Glen is survived by his wife, Kim Campbell of Nashville, TN; their three children, Cal, Shannon and Ashley; his children from previous marriages, Debby, Kelli, Travis, Kane, and Dillon; ten grandchildren, great- and great-great-grandchildren; sisters Barbara, Sandra, and Jane; and brothers John Wallace "Shorty" and Gerald.
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