Consider the list: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Eagles, The Who, The Faces, The Clash, Crosby Stills, and Nash, Ryan Adams, Band Of Horses, etc.
Johns' career began in 1959 as a lowly assistant engineer. The job required setting up a studio, polishing equipment, and taking the blame for anything that went wrong. Early sessions included pop singers of the day like Lonnie Donegan, classical concerts and Sir Laurence Olivier reading a part from the Battle Of Trafalgar. That soon lead to non-stop engineering of albums by bands who are now in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
Consider this week in 1969: he worked a couple of days at Abbey Road on a Beatles project, drove across town to do an all-night session with the Stones until 6 a.m., back to Abbey Road that afternoon, then off to the Royal Albert Hall that night to record a Jimi Hendrix concert.
As someone pointed out, for about 20 years, his week beat your decade.
Johns' memoir "Sound Man," released last November, is a steady upbeat read, but he warns that this isn't a "tell all." Which is too bad: not only did he work with many artists at the top of their creative powers, but many were at their most decadent as well. A few juicy tidbits would have been nice. But that's not to say that there aren't some fascinating revelations, such as:
Glyn Johns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2012.
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