I want you to close your eyes for a second and just picture the singer of the ultimate shiny 1970s pop country anthem. Oh, I think I know exactly where you’re going with this. Yeah, you almost certainly know the song. And if you picture the man singing it, you’re probably visualizing like the big hair, the glittering, heavily embroidered suit, and that wide, impossibly perfect television smile.

I mean, he played for Elvis Presley. He actually helped record the soundtrack for Viva Las Vegas. He played for Frank Sinatra, The Monkees, Nat King Cole. But here is the critical tension in that part of his career.

• We are looking at a massive stack of sources detailing the life and career of Glenn Campbell
• He never learned to read a lick of sheet music
• He never put down that Sears guitar, did he
• Here is the critical tension in that part of his career