Monday, May 25, 2026

Watch Glen Campbell’s “Farewell” Video, Recorded as Alzheimer’s Descends

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Taylor Swift’s record company Big Machine has a last video for Glen Campbell, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Get out a box of Kleenex to watch it. A few years ago I was in green room at the Grammys talking with Glen. As we spoke, Phil Collins walked by. Glen said to him, “Hello Elton!” He was serious. Phil was bewildered and everyone moved on. In retrospect now I see this was at the beginning of Campbell’s illness. I sat with him and his a couple of years ago at a music event and it was clear how well he was being cared for. What a great talent, and what a shame.

If you’re too young to know what a star Glen Campbell, was, here’s something to show you:

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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