Sound Man

Sound Man. A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces...

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: "Slowhand" by Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin?s and the Eagles? debuts, "Who?s Next" by the Who, and many others. 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, with beguiling stories that will delight music fans the world over: 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.

Johns?s career has been long and prolific, and he?s still at it -over the last two decades he has worked with Crosby, Stills & Nash; Emmylou Harris; Linda Ronstadt; Ryan Adams; and, most recently, Band of Horses. "Sound Man" provides a firsthand glimpse into the art of making music and reveals how the industry -like musicians themselves- has changed since those freewheeling first years of rock and roll.

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Preface

Early years
Jack Good
Sunday sessions
First session, 1960
Singer-Songwriter / Freelance producer, early Sixties
Stu '62
Norwegian bird
To continue '62
Going freelance
Andrew Oldham
Bill Wyman, Spain, 1966
Managers in the early Sixties
Chris Blackwell
Let's spend the night together, 1966
Stones European Tour, spring 1967
Children of the Future, part one, 1968
Brian Jones and the Gnawa, 1968
California, 1968
"Sailor", 1968
Led Zeppelin, October 1968
The Beatles, 1969
Children of the Future, part two
Back to The Beatles
David Anderle, March 1969
Mimi, Jan, and Bob, July 1969
Sixties sum-up, Howlin' Wolf, Humble Pie, "Mad Dogs", "Sticky Fingers", "Gimme Shelter", and "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Who and Neil Young, 1971
The Stones at the Marquee Club
"Who's Next"
Denny Cordell and Leon Russell
The Eagles
"Desperado" and "On the Border", 1973
The Small Faces / The Faces, 1965-73
Ronnie Wood, Pete & Eric, the "Black Box" Album, and the last meeting with John, 1971
"Black and Blue", December 1974-February 1975
Fairport Convention, Keith Moon, Derek Green, AFL, and Joan Armatrading
"Rough Mix" and "Slowhand", 1976-77
"White Mansions" and "The Legend of Jesse James", 1978-79
MTV
The Clash, 1982
ARMS, 1983
The Eighties and Nineties
Fred Walecki
Ashes and fire
2014

Acknowledgements
Select discography
Index
Credits