Recording White Mansions at Olympic: John Dillon, Steve Cash, Waylon Jennings, Glyn Johns

In the Recording Studio with The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 11, 2014

Glyn Johns was 16 years old at the dawn of rock and roll. He got his big break as a producer with the Steve Miller Band’s debut album, and he went on to engineer or produce some iconic albums, including Abbey Road with the Beatles, the debuts of Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. In this memoir Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces he tells stories from the music industry in the 1960s and beyond.

Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Glyn Johns
Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Glyn Johns
(Henry Dlitz)

 

Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns
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Sound Man by Glyn Johns
Sound Man by Glyn Johns
(Blue Rider Press/Courtesy of the publisher)

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