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Insurgent attack soldier named

- Source: Daily Star - London - UK

A British soldier from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment who died in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Jamie Webb. L/Cpl Webb, 24, who was born in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, died from wounds sustained during an insurgent attack on his patrol base in the Nad-e Ali District of Helmand Province on Monday.

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Campbell And Webb – In Session

- Source: Fusion 45

There are two kinds of people in this world: true believers who know Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb to be the country/pop equivalent of Lennon & McCartney and non-believers who've yet to see the light.

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Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb Are 'In Session' on Vintage CD/DVD

- Source: The Boot

Throughout his legendary career, Glen Campbell topped the pop and country charts with a number of songs penned by Jimmy Webb. "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston" and "Where's the Playground Susie" are just a few of the tunes written by the Oklahoma-born Webb that were popularized by Campbell through his albums, concerts and frequent TV appearances.

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Mike Ragogna: SHOF/PBS Chats: Billy Joel, Jimmy Jam, Jimmy Webb, Garth Brooks, Allan Toussaint, Dwight Yoakum, Hal David, Paul Williams...

- Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to exchange a few words with many terrific songwriters and artists ranging from Billy Joel and Garth Brooks to Jimmy Jam and Jimmy Webb and even an exec or two as they that walked the red carpet at the Songwriters Hall Of Fame awards show held at the Marriott Marquis.

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One-Hit Wonders: Richard Harris

- Source: WNEW

"The song is about a girlfriend of mine," says songwriter Jimmy Webb of his epic "MacArthur Park," a huge smash for One-Hit Wonder Richard Harris.

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Laura Marling, Gloucester Cathedral, GloucesterGlen Campbell, BBC Radio Theatre, London

- Source: The Independent - Music

Gloucester Cathedral has played host to some decidedly unchristian events in recent years, notably the filming of scenes for Harry Potter and Doctor Who. It nevertheless feels strange to walk in through the main arch and hear its vertiginous Cotswold limestone pillars and fan-vaulted arches echo to the sound of Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" and Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's thinly veiled sex-and-drugs duet "Some Velvet Morning", while glasses of mulled wine and Tyrell's crisps, are sipped and nibbled by an audience whose choice of neck warmer – keffiyeh for the studenty girls, pashmina for their mums – is the only indication of a generation gap.

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JD Souther - Natural History

- Source: BBC Music

Natural History is the second stirring of a long-postponed comeback by Souther , following 2009's If the World Was You – the first new work the Eagles associate had issued in 25 years.

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Glen Campbell

- Source: Mojo

When Jimmy Webb was asked in MOJO 201 how he felt about the multiple strange interpretations of his insoluble 1968 composition, you detected a certain annoyance at the fact that people couldn't quite decide on exactly what the song was about.

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