Legendary Live Music Venues Around the World

These are the rooms where music history was made, and every one of them still sells tickets. The test for a place here is simple: a run of performances that changed how people heard an artist, a genre or a city, plus a stage you can still stand in front of tonight. That covers sandstone amphitheaters and gilded concert halls, cramped jazz cellars and the rock clubs where careers caught fire. Each photo shows the room, the stage or the famous front door, so you can picture the night before you book it. Use the gallery to pick a bucket-list show by sound and size as much as by legend. Festival grounds and recording studios have galleries of their own, and closed rooms such as CBGB are left out because you can no longer see a show there.