His yeti-like goatskin coat. His dandyish Oscar Wilde jackets. His Capri-ready neck scarves and Janis Joplin sunglasses... with his flair for accessories and slinky-pants-cool, Mr. Johns has found a new round of appreciators a half century after the fact.
“Glyn Johns is the late ’60s fashion icon I didn’t know I needed,” tweeted Katie Irish, a costume designer who worked on “The Americans.”
“Glyn Johns in the fluffy jacket is my look for the rest of winter,” said Emma Swift, an Australian singer and songwriter, on Twitter....
I love that people are using the film to get excited about some weird clothes from the 60s. Fashion was so much fun then. I had the good fortune to be a teenager then and to truly fall in love with all that crazy stuff. I got to shop at Paraphernalia. I had no idea the succeeding decades would be so boring. So unfun. Please be inspired by Glyn Johns in "Get Back," o, young people of today. Slough off your normcore and rejoice.
Glyn Johns is definitely one of the heroes of #TheBeatlesGetBack. Not only is he sporting the coolest jackets and sunglasses, he also saw straight through Allen Klein's BS after just one meeting. Sadly, John (and George, and Ringo) didn't. pic.twitter.com/wy5LMMKfLW
— Jane 🐰 (@BeatlesJane) November 27, 2021
The Coats of Glyn Johns #TheBeatlesGetBack pic.twitter.com/bo74YyDXy6— Dianne Ketler (@stovewithahouse) November 27, 2021
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Not judging but he does look like a bloody clown.
All we need is love.
You can buy fake-fur men's jackets at Amazon that are cheap enough that you can have fun in them. Horse around. And, of course, Henry the Horse dances the waltz.
Never heard of him. Glynnis (Mary Poppins) Johns is 98 and probably unhappy.
It's funny to compare this to AA's famous dislike of men wearing shorts. You see, it makes them look like silly little boys. lol
Go ahead. Dress up in your outlandish costumes, you well-grounded people.
Some people have the good sense to be embarrassed by their antics from when they were immature. Others hope new people will follow down their path. Who wants to feel silly alone?
It helps that those duds were NEW when he wore them. "Vintage" apparel tends to look creepy and stale.
Also, it helps that, in 1969, he didn't think he was wearing "clown" clothes, or display any self-consciousness or sense of irony in wearing them. Those outfits would likely look a lot sillier on somebody today simply because it would feel like parody to the wearer.
To misquote Scarlett O'hara "Fun. Fun for women you mean"
I can see why he's upset. But it probably had shock value back in '69. Today nothing has shock value. We've been shocked out of our shocks and our socks.
Yes indeed! The 60s look. The Blowup and Alfie look. Peg pants that were soon replaced by bell-bottoms and women's leg drapery.
I think one of the things that made the 60’s fashion fun was all the gender bending. Guys dressing like girls, girls dressing like guys.
A few years ago I read- and almost completed- the autobiography of Glyn Johns, "Sound Man". I was thinking I'd be getting a good history of rock through the eyes of one of rock's greatest engineers. What I got was a book written by a cynical man with a large ego who basically gave the impression that the musicians he worked with would not have been anything without him. They (the musicians) were, in his eyes, horrible, awful, talentless people and without him would be quickly forgotten.
I made it 2/3 of the way through the book and got so sick and tired of Glyn Johns that I put it down. Later, I just gave it to Goodwill. I don't give up books lightly, but this one I did so gladly.
The images confirm what his book told me about him. Glyn Johns is about Glyn Johns. That said, he's still considered one of the greatest engineers in the industry. He worked with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Dylan, Clapton, The Eagles (who he hated and left. They went on without him to do...you might say...OK), as well as The Beatles. All talentless plebes.
Our first neighborhood head shop cum clothing store in early 1968 was named Strawberry Fields - rolling papers, underground comix and bell-bottoms. ✌️
There are a lot of things most of us have done when we were young that makes us cringe at the memory. Silly coats not so much.
We all wore 'unfortunate' clothes in the '60s and '70s.
Some pretty cool, looking back.
Some atrocious : )
Fashion leaders sometimes are just the first people to be told they look bad in what they're wearing, saving many others from experiencing such mistaken clothing choices.
I confessionally regret, for example, my bright yellow tennis shorts of 1979. I thought they looked great with a Madras print, short sleeved, wrinkly cotton, summer shirt. Pictures from the era prove me wrong.
Have to admit that as I watched Get Back, I was fascinated to see this young version of Glyn Johns. He was clearly "cool", and talented, but had to continuously navigate the minefield and distractions of the 4 lads trying to create, destroy, negotiate, preen, play-the-victim, etc.
A trained psychologist couldn't have done a better job - it was amazing to watch. And of course, the clothes! Also, amazing he didn't die from lung cancer 30 years ago.
Quite a roster of talent Johns supported. I give him props for walking away from the Eagles (probably around the time of their regrettable “hey, we’re gunslingers… real desperadoes” phase.
Looking back… the clothes, colors, styles, ALL of it was silly and, most of all, fun. I love thumbing through my vinyl LP collection every so often to get some chuckles… some faves are Hendrix ”Are You Experienced”, Cream “Disraeli Gears” and any Zappa album.
That fluffy fur coat that Glyn Johns was wearing make him look like he was getting his fashion sense from the actor Patrick Troughton when he was playing the Doctor on Dr. Who that same year.
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