Editing Glyn Johns (section)

====The Beatles====

Glyn Johns worked as the chief recording engineer on [[the Beatles]]' [[Let It Be (album)#Recording and production|"Get Back" sessions]], which were both taped and filmed.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=164–165}}  The project resulted the ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'' album{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=199}} and ''[[Let It Be (1970 film)|Let it Be]]'' (1970){{sfn|Wessman|2021}} and ''[[The Beatles: Get Back]]'' (2021){{sfn|Runtagh|2021}} [[Documentary film|documentary]] films.  In 1969, Paul McCartney called Johns and asked him to assist with sessions.{{sfnm|1a1=Runtagh|1y=2021|2a1=Lewisohn|2y=1988|2pp=164–165|3a1=Walsh|3y=2014}}  George Martin, though officially listed as the producer, only made occasional appearances.{{sfn|Golsen|2022}}  During taping and shooting, [[John Lennon]] in jest referred to him as "Glynis" (referring to the apparently unrelated actress [[Glynis Johns]]).{{sfnm|1a1=Lewisohn|1y=1988|1p=165|2a1=Beaumont|2y=2021}}

According to Johns, he suggested the band play a [[The Beatles' rooftop concert|concert on the rooftop]] of their [[Apple Studio]] facility, where much of the sessions were being recorded and filmed,{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=129}} and rigged the recording wires onto the rooftop connected to control room for the performance.{{sfn|Walsh|2014}}  He also recommended that the album be structured as an "audio documentary" with talk and banter included between each track.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=129}}  Johns helped the band compile several versions of the album,{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=176, 196}} all of which got shelved{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=176, 196–197}} before the project was turned over to producer [[Phil Spector]] in 1970, who reworked it and released it as the album ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]''.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=197–199}}{{efn|Johns was critical of Spector's re-produced version, calling it "a syrupy load of bullshit".{{sfnm|1a1=Lewisohn|1y=1988|1p=199|The Independent|2014}}}}

Johns engineered early recorded parts of the song "[[I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]" at [[Trident Studios]]{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=170}} on 23 February 1969, that in later finished form appeared on the ''[[Abbey Road]]'' album.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=173–174, 186, 191–92}}  For ''Abbey Road''{{'s}} remaining tracks, the group returned to [[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]] and re-united with producer [[George Martin]] and a team of engineers including [[Geoff Emerick]], [[Phil McDonald]], and [[Alan Parsons]].{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=173–192}}

Johns assisted with early sessions of [[Paul McCartney and Wings]]' ''[[Red Rose Speedway]]''.{{sfn|DeRiso|2018}}{{efn|Some sources mention Johns as the producer, but in his autobiography Johns does not take credit for that role, nor does the list at the end of the book credit him as producer.}}  Johns quit the project due to what he described as his lack of satisfaction with the material.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=192}}