McCartney Times

Glyn Johns was relaxing at his London home one night in December 1968 when the phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. Johns told him to f— off.

In his defense, he assumed he was being pranked by another member of the British rock aristocracy. “I thought it was Mick Jagger trying to be amusing,” Johns tells PEOPLE. “I can’t remember exactly what I said to what I thought was Mick, but it was more or less, “F— off, what do you want?’ And, in fact, it was Paul.”

At just 26, Johns already had an illustrious career as a first-call studio engineer, guiding sessions for some of Britain’s biggest bands, including the Pretty Things, Small Faces, and Spooky Tooth. Most famously, he’d worked with the Rolling Stones on a string of classic albums, including their then-current smash, Beggar’s Banquet. Hence why a late-night joke from Jagger wasn’t outside the realm of possibility. But a cold call from one of the Beatles was a little more unusual.

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Source: The Long and Winding Saga of Glyn Johns’ Lost Beatles Album | PEOPLE.com