At a time when teenage tastes controlled the charts, and three-minute anthems of rebellion took over the radio, Campbell found success in the most unlikely way of all, with lonely songs about lonely guys far away from home. The protagonist in a Glen Campbell song isn't heading to San Francisco with flowers in his hair. He's not a street-fighting man or a working-class hero or even just a fortunate son. He's sad and alone and wants to get back to Phoenix—or Wichita or Galveston or some other place he used to be.
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