Editing Glyn Johns (section)

====The Clash====
In 1982, Johns worked with [[the Clash]] during the late stages of making the album ''[[Combat Rock]]''.{{sfn|Gray|2004|p=386}}  Initially it was intended to be a double album tentatively under the working title ''Rat Patrol from Fort Brag''.{{sfn|Gray|2004|pp=385–386}} The group's chief songwriters [[Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)|Mick Jones]] and [[Joe Strummer]] disagreed on how to proceed, and according to Johns even booked separate studios in New York to do their own competing mixes of the album.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=252}}{{efn|It is well known that Mick Jones did a mix prior to the arrival of Glyn Johns, but in Glyn Johns's autobiography, he mentions that both Strummer and Jones did mixes.}}  According to Clash biographer Marcus Gray, the group's manager  [[Bernie Rhodes]], pushed to bring in either [[Gus Dudgeon]], who had produced [[Elton John]], or Glyn Johns.{{sfn|Gray|2004|p=386}}{{efn|The situation that Gray recounts is somewhat confusing. Gray indicates that Rhodes may have meant Glyn Johns when he proposed Dungeon.}}  Johns recounts that the chief of London's [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]] [[A & R]] department, [[Muff Winwood]] (brother of musician Steve Winwood), having been dissatisfied with Jones' and Strummer's mixes, asked Johns to remix the album.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=252}}  Johns agreed and, upon hearing an acetate of one of the previous mixes, was concerned about the record's apparent self-indulgence, but was also impressed with many of its tracks and realised that there was enough strong material to make a good album.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=254}}  Johns recommended that the album be shortened to one disc, and proceeded to reduce the number of tracks for inclusion, plus he edited down the length of several tracks in addition to remixing all of the songs that ended up on the final release.{{sfnm|1a1=Johns|1y=2014|1p=255|2a1=Gray|2y=2004|2pp=386–387}}{{efn|In similar fashion, Johns helped the Who pare down Pete Townshend's sprawling [[Lifehouse (rock opera)|''Lifehouse'' concept]] into the more concise ''Who's Next'' (1971).{{sfn|Gray|2004|p=386}}}}