Glen Campbell Dead At 81

Glen Campbell — the legendary singer who topped the pop and country charts for decades — has passed away at the age of 81 after struggling for years with Alzheimer's!

The music legend — beloved for hits like "Wichita Lineman" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" — passed away on Aug. 8 at the Nashville facility where his family was forced to take him in 2015. “It’s not safe for him to be at home,” his former daughter-in-law Alexandria Campbell told The National ENQUIRER. “The whole family would love for him to be at home, but it’s impossible. He wanders. And sadly, when he was staying with me, he took soap and tried to drink it.”

“It was just more than I could handle,” confessed fourth wife Kim, 57. Glen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, and was first moved into a Nashville-area facility in April 2014. By then, reported family members, Glen had lost the ability to speak — except to mumble, “I love you.”

Despite that, Glen was able to spend one more summer with his fractured family before being transported to a new facility — and Kim said that her husband spent the final years playing a guitar and singing to himself, “It’s not a melody that we recognize,” lamented Kim. “But you can tell that it’s a happy song, and he has a song in his heart.”