Sound Man, Glyn Johns
Sound Man, Glyn Johns
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Sound Man
A Life Recording Hits With the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces…

Author: Glyn Johns

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/26/2015

Synopsis

Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business including Abbey Road with the Beatles. Even more impressive, Johns was perhaps the only person on a given day in the studio who was entirely sober, and so he is one of the most reliable and clear-eyed insiders to tell these stories today.



In this entertaining and observant memoir, Johns takes us on a tour of his world during the heady years of the sixties. He remembers helping to get the Steve Miller Band released from jail shortly after their arrival in London, he recalls his impressions of John and Yoko during the Let It Be sessions, and he recounts running into Bob Dylan at JFK and being asked to work on a collaborative album with him, the Stones, and the Beatles, which never came to pass. Johns was there during some of the most iconic moments in rock history, including the Stones' first European tour, and the Beatles' final performance on the roof of their Savile Row recording studio.

About Glyn Johns

Glyn Johns was the producer or engineer of a number of rock's classic albums, including those by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, the Who, the Beatles, the Clash, and such singular artists as Joan Armatrading and Ryan Adams. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sebastian on May 16, 2020

Incredible history from a man who helped invent rock and roll. Love the book it just could have used a couple more exclamation points......more

Goodreads review by Mark on August 06, 2017

This is one to check out from the library. There is quite a bit of name dropping as you would expect who has engineered and produced so many great albums, but much of it is a lot of random bits and pieces. While he includes some interesting anecdotes, I think the book would have been stronger if it......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 09, 2020

Johns autobiography touches upon every musician and band he engineered or produced over a 50 + year career in the business. He has worked with such bands as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, The Faces, The Eagles, and Eric Clapton just to name a few. I wasn......more

Goodreads review by M.D. on March 14, 2015

Having spent the last few years plowing through rock book after rock biography by the true masters only to walk away, feeling inundated with sex and drug exploits while being short changed on the musical end of the adventure-the reason I picked the book up in the first place. This one is quite the o......more

Goodreads review by Tankboy on April 12, 2020

I’ve never read a memoir that focused on the mundane and relegated all the interesting stories to a reference in a single sentence here or there. I was hoping to glean some of Johns’ experience and studio methods from this, but instead was treated to a rather boring rundown that reads more like a ch......more

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