Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me is a 2014 American documentary film about country music singer Glen Campbell. Campbell and close friend Julian Raymond (the film’s executive producer) won a Grammy Award and were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for writing the film’s theme “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”. (More from Wikipedia)
Ghost on the Canvas was intended to be Glen Campbell’s last studio album and was released on the eve of Glen Campbell’s Goodbye Tour. Instead, a documentary directed by James Keach that was made during the Goodbye Tour came out in September 2014, called Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me. With co-writer Julian Raymond, Glen Campbell won a Grammy Award for writing and performing the theme song of the film, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”; and the song was also nominated for an Academy Award. By the 2015 award season, Glen Campbell was too sick to make public appearances and is now in an assisted-living facility. Tim McGraw performed “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” at the 2015 Academy Awards.
As suggested by the title, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” is about the impact of Alzheimer’s on Glen Campbell’s own life and the lives of those he loves; the song begins:
I’m still here, but yet I’m gone
I don’t play guitar or sing my songs
They never defined who I am
The man that loves you ’til the end
You’re the last person I will love
You’re the last face I will recall
And best of all, I’m not gonna miss you
Not gonna miss you
(February 2015)
