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Bob Dylan wanted to make an album with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, sixties production legend Glyn Johns has revealed.
The prolific 1960's producer/engineer worked on albums by the Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed), the Beatles (Let It Be, Abbey Road), the Who (Who's Next, Quadrophenia, The Who By Numbers) Neil Young (Harvest) and the Clash (Combat Rock) to name a fraction, and has more than his share of anecdotes in a new book, 'Sound Man'.
Speaking to Dylan after a now-famous interview with Rolling Stone, Johns writes: "He said he had this idea to make a record with the Beatles and the Stones and he asked me if I would find out whether the others would be interested. I was completely bowled over. Can you imagine the three greatest influences on popular music in the previous decade making an album together?"
Johns swiftly got in touch with the two bands: "Keith and George thought it was fantastic," he writes. "But they would since they were both huge Dylan fans. Ringo, Charlie and Bill were amicable to the idea as long as everyone else was interested. John didn't say a flat no, but he wasn't that interested. Paul and Mick both said absolutely not."
Needless to say, Dylan's grand plans never came to fruition but we can only imagine the rock and roll brilliance that might have ensued.
'Sound Man' by Glyn Johns is out 13 November.
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