The last performance by Glen Campbell took place at Uptown Theater in Napa, CA on November 30, 2012. Featuring his 1967 Grammy Award winner Gentle On My Mind, live concert #148 is chronicled on Glen Campbell‘s 2014 documentary Ill Be Me farewell tour in 2011 and 2012 as he struggled with Alzheimer’s disease. Fans witnessed part of Campbell’s very last show.

Glen Campbell performs one of his most famous hits, 1967’s “Gentle on My Mind.” At times, he struggles to remember the familiar lyrics and mixes up lines and verses, yet his voice is still strong, and he is able to banter with the audience. A guitar solo shows that his playing skills remained largely intact, though his mind is clearly failing him when he stops playing and talks into his mic to his sound techs mid-song.

“That was a really difficult day. It was difficult leading up to the show; it was really stressful and difficult,” Campbell’s wife Kim recalls. “That night was really, really, really hard, and we just knew this was it.”

The Band Perry recorded the song Gentle On My Mind in 2014 for the soundtrack of the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, earning a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance in 2015.

In June of 2011, Campbell announced his Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, after experiencing short-term memory loss for several years. The disease continued to rob him of his memories until his death. Campbell died on Tuesday August 8, 2017 at age 81.

Glen Campbell moved to Los Angeles in 1960 to become a session musician, including a guitarist member of the famed Wrecking Crew. During his lifetime, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and won a number of major awards, including numerous Grammy Awards and Grammy Hall of Fame honors, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, two CMA Awards (including Entertainer of the Year), a number of ACM Awards and many more.

Watch Glen Campbell perform Wichita Lineman live in 1968, the year of the song's release [ Ссылка ]

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