Spoiler alert - He died in 1981.

I was wondering if you guys could make a documentary of the old man that appears in the Get Back documentaries. He's the one sweeping the floors in Twickenham? Thanks and happy new year.

Talk about an “if only” moment. Glyn all but calls him a fraud but John wasn’t listening.

He actually had some background. Glyn had been producing The Rolling Stones since 1964. Allen Klein had been managing The Rolling Stones since 1965. As such, the two had dealt with each other. There were possibly other encounters. But Glyn wasn’t speaking about Klein from one meeting. He was speaking from years of having worked with one of Klein’s more high profile clients.

@FurryUmbreonGaming1188 a fraud manager who ended up convincing John Lennon to let him manage The Beatles. I think the rest but McCartney thought it was a good idea. Years later John Lennon said in an interview that Paul was right all along about Klein. Don't think Klein was the sole reason The Beatles ended up splitting but he sure as heck didn't help the matter

@FurryUmbreonGaming1188 Brian Epstein, their first manager had set up a company called NEMS to look after the publishing rights of the songs (and also their touring, I think, until they stopped touring). The deal they had under NEMS was pretty fair (I can’t remember what percentage of the publishing Epstein and his business partner took, but it was pretty reasonable and would have been open for renegotiation probably - as Epstein was a decent guy). Then Epstein died and Lennon met with Klein who had set up ABKO. ABKO owned the Rolling Stones publishing (and maybe touring etc, not sure). Anyway, ABKO would pay the Stones a salary and keep ALL the rest of the money. It was a really stupid deal, but the Stones were enticed by the idea of a salary. Funny enough, George Harrison didn’t allow his song to go to ABKO. His songs were with Northern Songs.

​@@Sunking210 Paul was postulating to Linda's brother as the manager. then, lee Eastman, Linda's father, became Paul's manager (even before The Beatles breakout). later, John Eastern (Linda's brother) wrote The Beatles dissolution contract.

Absolutely! Kept me in suspense and engaged! Lol. I Had no idea he was that freaking cool! Always knew he was talented

or the greatest narcissist.

Bro and I really noticed Glyn's parade of never-ending jackets, too! I learned recently that 3 of the Beatles were wearing the same fashion designer on the cover of Abbey Road. The exclusion was -- of course -- George, who stayed in his denims.

I recognised one that Brian Jones had worn

@@junaid1 In the same room as Paul and John? Unlikely

Why do you think Paul didn’t respect people?

I would say John is the one that didn’t easily respect others... his respect had to be earned

That's not true, Paul respected the hell out of himself.

Quite the opposite. Are you on drugs? He sounded arrogant

This is the most productive conversation ever.

Define legendary....

@@crazyantny9161 He's produced some legendary bands: The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Eagles, The Clash, Led Zeppelin... Just to name a few, so yeah... He's a legend in his own right.

Dude.. he recorded the freakin Beatles’ rooftop concert. That alone makes him legendary.

@@natalyamartirosyan I know right ???

@@ghoppr71 absolutely. Also his outfits in “get back” are fabulous!

Glynis Johns is still with us, too. She's 98.

Yeah he was a comedic genius that Lennon

As a musician in a band..we all need our Glynis

It was pretty clear than JL didn't think much of CJ

That was his nickname among the industry. Led Zeppelin went as far as to put Glynis John’s in the cover is LZII as a playful jab at him.

He and his brother Andy are titans in the rock and roll world-two of the very best recording engineers. Their body of work speaks for itself.

He wasn't afraid to push the needles up. Lyndsay-Hogg did a good job capturing Glyn Johns and the equipment in action while recording in the Get Back series. Watch the meters on George's 8 track recorder and on the desk when Glyn is running it. They're hitting the red almost all the time. Other engineers were afraid to break the equipment if they drove it too hard. It was actually against company policy at EMI/Abbey Road Studios at the time to run the meters into the red. He was the first producer to really say "this is fucking rock n roll - push those levels as far as they go just before distortion and let it rip. We want the sound to explode off the listener's stereo!"

Abbey Road the studio, not the album. Yes they got a brand new 16 track machine for the album. I was referring to George Harrison’s 8 track portable machine Glyn Johns was using for Let It Be. Watch the Get Back series.

His method of mic'ing drums has been recognized by drummer and engineers as the "Glyn Johns Drum Mic Method".

AND he tried to warn John about Klein. Guy was nearly a lot of people's heroes.

@@MASAo7 Definitely

Is this it ? Where is it ?

@@paddyskate I'm curious as well

I think at this point I'm more likely to listen to the Naked version of the album, but the original has its charms. For some songs, the orchestral additions were unnecessary, but Eleanor Rigby and Let It Be definitely benefit from the orchestral arrangement Phil Spector added as they both are soaring, bombastic and dramatic. After watching the documentary though, most of the songs work much better in the form they were created and recorded - raw, stripped down, live rock and roll.

Eleanor Rigby isn’t on Let It Be nor did Spector produce it

@@calfolk7381 ok whatever, the point remains.

I like Spector’s production of the Let It Be album 👍

I don't understand why Mr Johns slagged off the Phil Spector version, but then said that the good one is a bootleg, without mentioning "Let It Be (Naked)" -- not a bootleg since 2003.

It was supposed to be in Sabratha, in Libya. Where were you?

Still an afterthought when compared to AB, SP, Revolver.

No doubt.

I agree! I’m taken back as to how many are talking down regarding the let it be album because I still think it’s a great album! Both versions are great imho

@@Kenneth-nVA the long and winding road is pretty aweful

Phil Spector was a waste of space and time and it was bizarre that he and his monstrous ego was ever let near such artists as the fab four. Glyn johns is associated with loads of great recordings. Spector went downhill from the Ronettes onwards and ended up a muderer of peple as well as the beatles

@@drunkenmasterii3250 Spector's version of The Long And Winding Road is camel poo.

@@bookashkin Seriously, the naked version is 100x better.

Its present in the Naked remix of the album, which is definitely my faviourite version of Let It Be

I completely agree. I think Spector worked miracles with those recordings. His only mistake was not including Don't Let Me Down as you said. Strange too because it was very much featured in the film. Let It Be Naked was kind of a dupe on the fans. It wasn't really naked or what it would've been without Spector. They actually tried to emulate Spector's edits on I Me Mine, but failed. Also the Frankenstein editing of the two roof top versions of I Got A Feeling is perplexing. The first version (The one that Spector used) was far superior. The Let It Be Naked version is just plain wrong.

The naked version of “the long and winding road” is WAY better. The original is over produced big time.

@@FPChris that’s the only song on Naked that is unequivocal better than the OG version

Totally agree

And I only knew him as an older man because I only seen him from the Eagles documentary interviews. So I was shocked to see him young in Get Back.

The "schmaltzy" Spector versions will one day regain their rightful place as the greatest versions. Right not its too soon to see the light. "Stripped down" is the hip ethos in our time.

I Love the strings and choir on Let it be and Long and Winding Road ..also grew up with it.

Spector's versions suck. They'll never be regarded highly. Never. Schmaltzy, muddy shite. Yeah, I used to love them too, for lack of fuck-else. Once I heard Glyn's mixes I couldn't listen to Spectorized crap ever again. Naked was ok by me.

@@Frip36 opinions are like arseholes and yours here is leathery and loose. The players, the audiophiles, the critics alike agree, in near unison, that Spector took a self-aggrandising shite on those tracks. Your appreciation of them is rose tinted, underpinned by nostalgia and yearning - a heady brew, most certainly, but in this case it's much too salty to serve to a discerning customer.

The strings are beautiful and genius but they take away rather than add in my opinion. They had the ability to create a complete sound and they really just muddied it up and hid the genius of Billy Preston

His brother, Andy was no slouch too !

Bowies last album was actually Blackstar, which was fantastic.

Let it Bleed and Led Zep 1 sound amazing! Bravo Glyn Johns! Kudos to him for doing great work. 🎸👏🏻😎

Think he also produced some of the Faces and Roxy Music albums I went through a phase of buying albums and thinking he was the only producer around! he was the best I reckon! very modest!

He also co-produced Family's second album ('Family Entertainment') and produced the first two LPs from the Eagles.

I prefer the spectorized album to the naked version on the GJ version. Long and winding road isn't the same without strings. across the universe isn't the same without the angelic woo's. the other versions seem so dry to me. PS was a weird SOB but he was pretty talented as a producer, contrary to public opinion.

@@ArmanBaig Phil Spector was a fantastically gifted producer....in the early '60s. He destroyed "Long and Winding Road," IMO, and I believe he did it because John and Yoko told him to do it: "Slather on the strings, Phil! Paul won't mind!"

@@OnePost909 Yeah, I agree. The orchestration almost makes it sound like a cheesy '70s movie theme song.

@@ArmanBaig Spector ruined long and winding road

Better word is "bastardised " it!!!!

Both Lindsay-Hogh and Glyn Johns seemed like the young ones in the room, when they both infact were older with longer careers than The Beatles;-)

I was thinking the Ringo's excuse for leaving India was not liking the food. Was this a common thing for him, I wonder?

@@magazinekitchen iirc he grew up with many allergies and was always sick as a kid. Maybe that's why he's picky with food

@@One.Zero.One101 and yet, in 1971, Pink Floyd took their bespoke PA system and multitrack to Pompeii and made a live film performing to the ghosts of Pompeii, and we are still watching that and it's regarded as epic. Floyd were on EMI and recorded at Abbey Road, but they already had a bespoke quad PA and light show, while the Beatles had 25w combos. John even says something like, "We are still think of four blokes and some amps and speakers." The Beatles should have had the best gear and tour facilities in the world but they didn't.

Glyn is joking ... Ringo had a film to make, so no way he was off to Tunisia ...

Here there and everywhere by Geoff emrick is a must

"The Love You Make" was a kiss and tell trasharama.

@@aquatarkus2022 That was Peter Brown's book with Steven Gaines, and definitely tawdry. It does delve into the business side of things well, as Brown was Brian Epstein's chief assistant at NEMS. Very heavy on gossip, but a good read when it delves into the business side of things.

Actually GM produced several songs there

@@marguskiis7711 He was the producer on record, but wasn't in charge of mixing. Mainly because it wasn't supposed to be a proper studio album, but a live album.

Well according to George Martin, John Lennon very nastily said we are bringing this to Phil Spector we don’t want your crap on the album,what a sweetheart huh? The funny thing is Phil Spector added all this strings and stuff to Paul’s songs, which was overkill, the naked Let It Be is a much better version. Yes it still was a number 1 song but again I thought Spector didnt help the album really.

@@lindakelly9552 The Long and Winding Road" done on Naked was AWESOME. The Phil Spector mess on the LIB album did not connect with me at all but now totally love the song the way Paul meant it to be.

@@rickcain4736 indeed!

Was thinking the exact same thing! A great record, too.

Joe Jackson is terrible.

@@ohdear2001 If you don't like Joe Jackson('s music), you're sick.

@@ohdear2001 haha, ok. I'm sure someone will come along in the comments and say The Beatles are terrible as well.

Tom Waits did as well in 1975 with his Nighthawks at the Diner album.

Yeah, he definitely misremembered. Understandable as it was 50+years ago. Paul had lots of ideas but was the one keen on the UK and roping the police in. So the rooftop idea was an idea pitching to Paul's thoughts.

Let It Be FILM isn't available :)

@@bookashkin It was, but long since deleted, I have it on DVD, it cost a lot of money. The American is right

@@bookashkin, the entire original Let it Be film is in KZfaq somewhere. I found it and watched it several months ago. Try searching, it will eventually come up.

@@MarkSeibold Cool! I saw it at a cinema once back in the 1980s :)

You'd have no nickels?? :-D

With green mildew.......?

Or as John and Paul would say: "If we had a pence for every time we did a silly voice during the Let It Be sessions..." (both men's wealth legit measured in billions nowadays lol)

Libia

It was that American guy with the cigar , he pushed them to go to middle east after one of the Beatles said they wanted to do a relaxed event for the fans at home. Give a free event during the fans , but they ignored him and the guy pushing Tunisia and tiki torches said what’s the most profitable/ fashionable charity right now and at that point the guys gave up . He kept pushing his middle east idea and that’s where get back came from

It was a long time ago, memory fades.

That guy was coming out with some awful ideas

Dig It and Maggie May are subpar, Dig A Pony kind of half there, I Me Mine edited together twice to make a full track.

@@steveconn woof. Dig a pony just grows on you, give it a chance.

They were rusty playing live after three years of studio effects addiction and they played mostly crappy run-throughs of bad songs with a few gems, retreating back to studio gimmickry on final album Abbey Road to save face. Put them up against smoking live bands of 1969 like the Who or The Band and the 'greatest band in history' tag sounds like the mindless hype it is.

@@steveconn Except the rooftop session proves otherwise!

@@steveconn yea sure against “smoking live bands of the era” The Beatles weren’t the best, but they and music historians would all acknowledge that anyway. The Beatles were never the technical best at their instruments but please guy there’s NOT even a question which of the bands had the best and most well known songs. Useless millennials these days MIGHT know one or two Who songs, no way they would know any of The Band BUT they will know Beatle songs. Enough said about their legacy. If I wanted to be blown away at a live concert in ‘69 there were plenty of choices other than the Beatles but they were and still are the best.

I always found it strange as well, but then found out that Capital Records told Phil not to use it as the song was going to be included on the Album Hey Jude which was released in February 1970.

@@johnbuckley8724 So "Don't Let Me Down" was never on the original Beatles LP's? Not on Let it Be. And not on Abbey Road? That's insanity.

Wound up being the B side to Get Back (the single).

But Dig It and Maggie Mae (which are kind of fun in their entirety, but not as Spector snippets) were included.

@@ronroskowske6047 That should have been one of the Beatles famous "double A sides".

And Jackson Browne did a similar live album in '77. " Runnin' on Empty". New songs , live.

I know what you mean. On a 3 disk set of The White Album (which includes the Esher demos recorded at George Harrison’s house) there’s a demo version of John Lennon singing “Dear Prudence” that’s just stunning. I almost prefer this over the finished version (almost).

I prefer the rooftop takes of Get Back over the studio version by a long shot. Paul's voice on take 2, the guitars being turned off and on again in take 3, they're so fun to listen to.

His playing on that record is, IMHO, the best on record. My fave JH lp.

Except B o G had been writing and rehearsing for 3 months; half the songs in the concerts had been previously recorded; and there were 4 shows, from which they chose and edited down a selection of half a dozen of the new songs to release as a live recording. That's not at all what McCartney was aiming for a year earlier. He wanted to write a complete, brand new album; and perform and record it live from start to finish, in one go. Mind you, he failed -- mainly, I'd say, for the obvious reason: The band had no manager to make it all work on the logistics side.

They have done it first at Hey Jude And by that time I have read somewhere that Jefferson Airplay had done it before the same year in a terrace in New York

Because it is newer. The Original Colosseum in Rome is MUCH older.

@@BigSmallTravel Again, no one on the internet can allow even the most insignificant detail just slide, without chiming in.

@@BigSmallTravel No, it’s because of an earthquake and people using parts of it to build new things.

that would'a been bad ass tho

Yes, and as Glyn Johns said, no one had ever done before in 1968. BTW, Times Fade Away is a great album, as most of Mr Young's releases were.

@@charlie-obrien Kick Out The Jams by MC5 is entirely live and it's from February 1969. But it's their first, they were unknown so it's not like they risking that much like the Beatles in that situation (or Stones, Animals, CCR, Doors, Hendrix, etc...)

Jackson Browne's Running on Empty was all new music recorded live as an album, but Paul did have the idea first

None of the examples being offered -- Time Fades Away, Kick Out the Jams, or Running on Empty -- were exactly what McCartney was aiming at: A single performance, in which an entire album of new songs would be performed live, for the first time, and recorded for release. TFA was cobbled together from various concerts, and the songs were not conceived as an album; Running on Empty was not only recorded in concerts, but on the tour bus and in the hotels. Even Kick Out the Jams was a mashup of two back-to-back concerts; the songs had all been played at many other MC5 concerts, and I expect others from the performances were left off the album.

Yeah you have to wonder whether Spector wasn't given the option of using Don't Let Me Down as it was already released on the Hey Jude album. Spector did a fab job, regardless.

@@marcusphelan57 They were big on not duplicating releases back then; I believe he was ordered to leave it out.

Thanks Marcus and Timothy... never thought of that... however having said that Hey Jude album was a Capitol release... on the UK albums which are the official ones Don't Let me Down is not on an album

If ditching a brilliant song like Don't Let Me Down is your only gripe, you haven't thought about Spector's crimes deeply enough. What he did to the Long And Winding Road is abominable.

@@bookashkin I don't have any gripes, it's a good record. I like it. I couldn't care less what you think of it, your opinion on the Long and Winding Road is of no consequence. Paul hated it so much he used much of the orchestral arrangement in his live gigs. I like the "Naked" version, but it's a different take to the one Spector was given. He did what he did with what he got - and damn fine job he did too. Plausible reasons for Don't Let Me Down being "ditched" have been mentioned above. Pay attention.

No it isn't. Naked is a totally different mix

And the super deluxe with Glyn John's mixes

Let it be "Naked" is a great....unlike the original.

"Let It Be... Naked" isn't the Glyn Johns mix, but still worth a listen. "Let It Be (Super Deluxe)" does have the Glyn Johns mix, which I personally like better because it approaches the album how it should have been approached - as a soundtrack to the movie, not an album trying to be seen as a standalone work in its own right.

@@DrFishopolisPHD Thanks for the info. I presumed the naked mix was the original, but having just read the wiki page for the album, it seems that quite a lot of compositing was made. There's an interesting track by track breakdown on the wiki page. Ive never heard the Glyn Johns mix. Will hunt it down

It’s alright. The Long and Winding Road is the only standout from Naked.

I think Phil Spector was great for Let It Be. A number 1 album with 3 number one hits in the Billboard chart can’t be called a disappointment.

@@ricardolopezrago1688 Many will say it achieved those heights in spite of Spector's production, not because of it.

They had gigantic egos. Fame really messes with the mind.

So I guess Pink Floyd jumped the shark with "Live at Pompeii?"

I too am glad the gig didn’t happen. Listening to them kick around the idea, not once did it sound like a good one to me. I just couldn’t picture it. It doesn’t fit what the Beatles were, or at least what they were doing at that point in their career. Better that Pink Floyd did it, that was perfect for them. I bet they heard about the idea while they were recording at Abbey Road and said, well if they’re not gonna do it, we will.

It wasn't Paul's idea it was Michael Lindsey Hogg. And I don't recall Paul ever throwing his support behind the idea either. Lol Paul kept throwing around ideas that would get them arrested so he almost got his wish ironically up on their own roof top when the cops shut them down.

I heard that due to Apple set up for every 10,000 pounds they spent they had to earn 120,000 pounds in taxes! Why Allen Klein and Lee Eastman were brought in… to help sort out the business mess and cut out all the expenses of Apple Corp. it was killing them all financially. Good businessmen the Beatles were not, musicians they were great!

@@markking6812 Good thing Neil Aspinall agreed to return to them and lead Apple

To put it simply....said money was not in their pockets. Finances were a mess.

They weren't THAT wealthy, not like Elon Musk. It was a different time. Record companies, agents were more in control also. LP's were $5.98. Their money was probably tied up in record company accounts and not as ready "cash". Merchanding was not as over saturated and exploited with $50 tee shirts , concert venues were not as big or as lavishly produced, ticket prices were at lot lower and the Beatles DIDN"T TOUR later. Heck Woodstock hadn't even happened! Plus England had huge tax rates (TAXMAN!) , that's why alot of English performers moved to the States or elsewhere. TV was relatively new. But everyone who appears in the Get Back movies was probably getting paid by the Beatles....right... from Producers to chauffeur to people building the sets? Who else would be paying them? Who paid the movie producer, who paid for the 57 hours of film? Look at sports figures , football , baseball players didn't make that much back then either, not like now. The world had just come out of WWII, I think people were more frugal and money wasn't as free and "globablly" flowing. The Beatles were not "Boomers" , Lennon was born in 1940. That being said....they did have chauffeured Bentleys to get them to the studio every day!

The reason Ringo wouldn’t go to Tunisia was he was about to start a film with Peter Sellers. Thought that was quite clear in the documentary.