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Grammy-winning guitarist and singer Glen Campbell is releasing his final studio album, recorded shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in
2011. The record label, Universal Music Enterprises, announced Friday that the album, Adios, will be released June 9. Campbell, 81, hasn’t performed since 2012 and is in a long-term care facility, but his wife, Kim Campbell, said in a statement that he felt a sense of urgency after his diagnosis to record one last time. Campbell is a native of Delight and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2014, he was the subject of a documentary, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, which focused on his farewell tour as he dealt with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Over the course of his long career in music, television and movies, he produced hits including “Gentle on My Mind,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” and his signature song, “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The new album is a collection of classic songs, including the Bob Dylan tune “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” and includes performances by Willie Nelson and Vince Gill, as well as three of his children.
Actor Shia LaBeouf ’s latest stunt is to spend a month isolated in a cabin in Finland’s remote Lapland region with his only communication with the outside world via text message to visitors to a Helsinki museum. The project is called #ALONETOGETHER and involves the other two members of the actor’s art collective, Nastja Ronkko and Luke Turner. Ronkko and Turner are also spending time isolated in separate cabins in Lapland beginning Wednesday. Visitors to the Kiasma museum in Helsinki can visit a cabin and send a text to LaBeouf, Ronkko and Turner, who can respond to visitors but can’t talk to one another. The public can view a livestream of museumgoers and the trio’s texts on the museum’s website. LaBeouf was arrested in January at his anti-Donald Trump livestream performance at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. That performance involved the actor and others chanting “He will not divide us” and was intended as a commentary Trump’s election as president. It was eventually shut down in February by the museum, which cited “serious public safety hazards” caused by several altercations between participants and the public.