Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell

Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell

by Kim Campbell
Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell

Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell

by Kim Campbell

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Overview

The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's roller-coaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally conquer his addictions only to face their greatest challenge when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Kim Campbell was a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old dancer at Radio City Music Hall when a friend introduced her to Glen Campbell, the chart-topping, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated entertainer. The two performers from small Southern towns quickly fell in love, a bond that produced a thirty-four-year marriage and three children.

In Gentle on My Mind, Kim tells the complete, no-holds-barred story of their relationship, recounting the highest of highs—award shows, acclaimed performances, the birth of their children, encounters with Mick Fleetwood, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Alice Cooper, Jane Seymour, and others—and the lowest of lows, including battles with alcohol and drug addiction and, finally, Glen’s diagnosis, decline, and death from Alzheimer's.

With extraordinary candor, astonishing bravery, and a lively sense of humor, Kim reveals the whole truth of life with an entertainment giant and of caring for and loving him amid the extraordinary challenge of Alzheimer's disease. This is a remarkable account of enduring love, quiet strength, and never-faltering faith.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400217830
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 06/23/2020
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Kim Campbell was married to legendary country/pop star Glen Campbell for thirty-four years until his passing in August of 2017, following a long and very public battle with Alzheimer's. The award-winning documentary, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, shared their family’s journey with the world and opened up a national conversation about the disease. Kim’s work as an advocate for people with dementia and for their families has taken her to Capitol Hill and the United Nations, and she is the creator of a website called CareLiving.org that encourages, informs, and inspires caregivers to take care of themselves while caring for others. She also established the Kim and Glen Campbell Foundation to advance the use of music as medicine to unlock forgotten memories, restore and rebuild neural pathways, alleviate depression, manage behaviors and boost cognition. Kim is an honorary faculty member of the Erickson school of Aging Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, holds a BFA from East Carolina University, and studied interior design at UCLA. To book Kim for speaking engagements, go to apbspeakers.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Life with Glen vii

Chapter 1 Unprepared 1

Chapter 2 Good Vibrations 19

Chapter 3 Despair 29

Chapter 4 White Firs and Ponderosa Pines 41

Chapter 5 By the Time We Got to Phoenix 61

Chapter 6 Denial and Determination 79

Chapter 7 The Shenandoah Valley 91

Chapter 8 Matthew 6:6 103

Chapter 9 Shorty and Mary 111

Chapter 10 The Tapes 119

Chapter 11 From Defeat to Defiance 127

Chapter 12 The Men's Grill 133

Chapter 13 Has Glen Campbell Converted to Judaism? 147

Chapter 14 Panic 155

Chapter 15 Water 167

Chapter 16 Campbellot 175

Chapter 17 Ghost on the Canvas 183

Chapter 18 "I Need the Ones I Love, Lord" 191

Chapter 19 A Dance of Love 201

Chapter 20 On the Line 207

Chapter 21 Power and Glory Forever 219

Chapter 22 Deep Seclusion 231

Chapter 23 Music City 239

Chapter 24 The Pell-Mell Bell 249

Chapter 25 Fractured Family 265

Chapter 26 Deeper Pain 275

Chapter 27 A Better Place 281

Acknowledgments 288

About the Author 295

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