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The records are familiar. The rooms can be a surprise. These photographs show the studios behind landmark sessions, from converted storefronts and churches to purpose-built rooms with space for an orchestra.

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Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios: Behind this white London townhouse is Studio Two, where the Beatles recorded much of their catalog. The…
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Sun Studio
Sun Studio: The corner storefront at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis housed Sam Phillips’s studio. In 1954, Elvis Presley…
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: Four musicians left FAME to open a studio in this low building at 3614 Jackson Highway in…
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FAME Recording Studios
FAME Recording Studios: Microphone stands and a drum kit occupy the wood-paneled live room in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At…
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Hitsville U.S.A.
Hitsville U.S.A.: The Detroit house with Hitsville U.S.A. over the front window held Motown’s Studio A. The Supremes, the…
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Electric Lady Studios
Electric Lady Studios: The Greenwich Village entrance leads to the New York studio Jimi Hendrix commissioned. He worked…
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RCA Studio B
RCA Studio B: A grand piano sits on the checkerboard floor at RCA Studio B on Nashville’s Music Row. Elvis Presley recorded…
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Hansa Tonstudio, Meistersaal
Hansa Tonstudio, Meistersaal: The chandeliers and tall windows belong to Berlin’s Meistersaal, which served as Hansa’s…
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Capitol Studios
Capitol Studios: The round Capitol Records Tower on Vine Street holds the Hollywood recording studios. The studio opened in…
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Stax Records
Stax Records: This archival photograph shows the former Memphis movie theater that housed Stax Records and the Satellite…
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Chess Records Studio
Chess Records Studio: This narrow building at 2120 South Michigan Avenue was home to Chess Records’ Chicago studio. Muddy…
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Trident Studios
Trident Studios: The former studio entrance is tucked into St. Anne’s Court in London’s Soho. David Bowie recorded “Space…
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Rockfield Studios
Rockfield Studios: The courtyard in Monmouthshire is surrounded by former farm buildings. Queen worked on “Bohemian…
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Olympic Studios
Olympic Studios: The entrance in Barnes, London, dates to the building’s previous life as a theater. As Olympic Studios it…
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Van Gelder Studio
Van Gelder Studio: The grand piano sits in the high-ceilinged recording room in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. John Coltrane…
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Columbia 30th Street Studio
Columbia 30th Street Studio: The rose window gives away the origins of this former church in New York. Columbia used it as…
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Bradley’s Quonset Hut
Bradley’s Quonset Hut: The curved ceiling reveals the shape of the prefabricated hut on Nashville’s Music Row. Owen and…
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EastWest Studios, Studio Three
EastWest Studios, Studio Three: This is the control room for Studio Three on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The Beach Boys…
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Sound City Studios
Sound City Studios: Through the window of this control room in Van Nuys is Sound City’s live room, prized for its drum…
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Power Station
Power Station: The angled wood panels wrap around Studio A in this former Con Edison facility on Manhattan’s West 53rd…
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Real World Studios
Real World Studios: The grand piano sits in the Wood Room at Peter Gabriel’s studio in Box, near Bath. The converted mill…

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