Editing Glyn Johns (section)

====The Kinks, the Who, and Eric Clapton and as independent====
[[File:The Who in 1965.png|right|thumb|upright=0.8|The Who, pictured in 1965.  With producer Shel Talmy, Glyn Johns engineered many of the early records by the Kinks and the Who in the mid-1960s.  He later went on to produce and engineer with the Who throughout the next decade on albums such as ''[[Who's Next]]'' (1971), ''[[The Who by Numbers]]'' (1975), and ''[[It's Hard]]'' (1983).]]

During the mid 1960s, Johns worked with several of the popular British [[Beat music|beat]] groups of the era.  With producer Shel Talmy he engineered many of the early records by [[the Kinks]] and [[the Who]],{{sfn|Bensley|2021}} such as "[[You Really Got Me]]" and "[[All Day and All of the Night]]" by the Kinks, and "[[My Generation]]" by the Who.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=46}}

In 1965, Johns left IBC studios to further pursue his solo career as a singer and performer and promote his latest record "Mary Anne", but the record failed to chart.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=50}}  At the urging of Talmy, Johns began working freelance as an independent producer and engineer—one of the first independent engineers in the UK.{{sfn|Bensley|2021}}  Subsequently, he did sessions at various studios such as Decca, Pye, Marble Arch, and Olympic.{{sfn|Bensley|2021}}

In 1971, Johns reunited with the Who for the first time since the mid-1960s, this time as a co-producer, to work on what became the album ''[[Who's Next]]''.{{sfn|Walsh|2014}}{{efn|The album began as a soundtrack for the multimedia project, ''Lifehouse'', which though abandoned, ended up forming the basis of ''Who's Next.''  The sessions began in New York with Kit Lambert as producer, but were eventually moved to London with Glyn Johns at Olympic Studios.{{sfn|Browne|Fricke|Dolan|Grow|2022}} which Johns co-produced, engineered, and mixed.{{sfn|Johns|2014|pp=180, 294}}}}  According to Pete Townshend in his autobiography:

{{blockquote|Glyn was my model of what a good producer should be—someone who guides the music and creates the right sound—and there was a great mutual respect and fondness between us. We were both perfectionists in the studio who worked quickly.  It was his work as an engineer on the early Who sessions{{nbsp}}... that made them sound so great.{{sfn|Townshend|2012|p=220}}}}

Johns continued to work with the Who throughout the 1970s as an engineer on parts of ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' in 1973.{{sfn|Walsh|2014}}  He produced and engineered ''[[The Who by Numbers]]''{{sfn|Giles on Who|2015}} (1975) and produced early sessions for ''[[Who Are You]]'' (1978) with engineer John Astley, who later took over as producer.{{sfn|Buskin|2005}}  Johns returned to work with the group, producing and engineering 1982's ''[[It's Hard]]''.{{sfn|Tavares|2013}} 

Pete Townshend recruited Johns to engineer ''[[Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert]]'' in 1973.{{sfn|Johns|2014|p=295}}  Johns produced and engineered [[Eric Clapton]]'s 1977 album, ''[[Slowhand]]'',{{sfnm|1a1=Walsh|1y=2014|2a1=Rother|2y=2014}} which featured hits such as "[[Lay Down Sally]]", "[[Wonderful Tonight]]", and his version of [[J.&nbsp;J. Cale]]'s "[[Cocaine (song)|Cocaine]]",{{sfn|Gallucci|2016}} and Clapton's next album, ''[[Backless]]'' in 1978, which contained another hit "[[Promises (Eric Clapton song)|Promises]]".{{sfn|Flanigin|2021}}  In his autobiography Eric Clapton wrote about Johns:

{{blockquote|He was a disciplinarian who did not like people mucking about or wasting time.  When we were in the studio we were expected to work and he'd get frustrated if there was any goofing off.  Even though we were all getting stoned or drunk we responded to that quite well.  He brought out the best in us, and as a result that album [''Slowhand''] has great playing and a great atmosphere."{{sfn|Clapton|2007|p=174}}}}