Glyn Johns was the most sought after sound engineer at the time when the recording industry was just exploding in the early 60s in London. Browne, David; Fricke, David; Dolan, Jon; Grow, Kory; Gehr, Richard; Greene, Andy; Hermes, Will; Martoccio, Angie (5 July 2022). Take Some Time Out: Reading between the lines, there’s another lesson to be taken away from Sound Man, and that’s to occasionally stop and smell the roses. S. Magazine of the Year - 2019) and has been nominated twice for "Best Range Of Work By A Single Author" in the annual Neal Awards.

Recording and mixing much of the Talking Heads catalog would be one achievement, but then throw in tracking some of the earliest hip-hop at Sugar Hill Records, mixing Robert Palmer’s.Over a long career as an engineer and/or producer, Johns has worked with numerous successful musical acts in the industry. In this respect, it’s quite a different read from Phill Brown’s similarly entertaining Are We Still Rolling? Most likely it was easy for the author to put his memories to paper thanks to the fact that he didn’t plunge to the depths of drugs and drink so many rock stars do.

Felton Rapley, considered one of the leading pipe organists in the UK at the time, became the choirmaster, and as Johns progressed, Johns was given occasional solos and eventually rose to head chorister at the age of eleven. During the 1970s, after leaving the Faces, Ronnie Lane worked on several projects including the Rough Mix album with Pete Townshend, which was produced by Glyn Johns. I was blasted through my youth into middle age with an extraordinary combination of creative people, sounds, rhythm, and lyrics in a period of time that I believe is unlikely to ever be repeated. Johns worked regularly with the Rolling Stones as engineer for the remainder of the decade and into the mid-1970s—from December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) through to Black and Blue (1975). Reading 'Sound Man' reminded me of just how many incredible people he worked with and how many great iconic records he made.That’s nearly 10 percent of an autobiography written about a product he never saw officially released. He seems to truly love artists, and this love is the characteristic that comes through most clearly in the book. Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names.

Though Johns is best known for his work as an engineer and producer for other artists, he recorded several singles as a solo act in the 1960s. As he told the Rock Hall audience in 2012, “I go off thinking I’m pretty hot stuff, [but] I’m not at all. In the 1960s, Johns engineered many of the records made by the Small Faces, [71] such as " Whatcha Gonna Do About It" [71] " Tin Soldier", [72] their 1967 hit, " Itchycoo Park", [73] which featured the use of bizarre phasing effects [72] Johns learned from another Olympic engineer, George Chkiantz. However, the material about Johns' solo career listed at the bottom of the AllMusic credits should be disregarded.

Here he is writing about a seemingly typical week in 1969: “I went straight from the plane to Apple [Records] for a couple of days, and then to Olympic Studios for an all-night session with the Stones till six a.