Glyn Johns (left) at a session with the Rolling Stones. Photo credit: Robert Altman, courtesy Blue Rider Press.

Glyn Johns first met Jimmy Page at a church talent show.

"I was probably thirteen years old," Johns says. "He turned and played guitar extremely well in that competition."

The Led Zeppelin guitarist is just one of many rock and roll legends Johns grew up with. The recording producer and engineer knew the members of the Rolling Stones and many other British rock stars as part of a tight-knit community of musicians. Many would make their first records with Johns behind the recording console.

Yet, Johns says he found himself in the studio less by design and more by accident.

"I'd never had any intention, or desire, or any knowledge of anything to do with the recording industry," Johns tells Steve Fast. Instead by pure luck he got a job working at a busy studio.

After initial ambitions to make a living as a recording artist himself, Johns would go on to produce and/or engineer some of the biggest records by the Stones, The Who, the Beatles and many others. He has written about his career in a new biography, "Sound Man."

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