He's a veritable founding father of rock, having produced early classics by The Who, The Kinks, The Easybeats, and other bands of the 1960s British Invasion. We talk about taking chances - how being a brash American got him his first breaks, about bucking convention to get the sound he wanted, and what's changed since the '60s (and what hasn't).

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