Glen Campbell – Former Beach Boy and Elvis Guitarist!
Alan Smith, NME, 6 June 1970
IT MAY NOT be generally known that Glen Campbell is a former member of the Beach Boys... that he was once a brilliant session guitarist on records by Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra... that he used to play with those old time 'Tequila' hit rockers, the Champs... and that behind the folksy "country boy" image there lies a shrewd and wealthy businessman.
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