Music in real places

Zellerbach Hall

UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley

Explore the places

Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.

Zellerbach Hall — Map source

Music happened here

Songbird: a piano and a Berkeley auditorium

Christine McVie records Songbird at Zellerbach

During the making of Rumours, released 1977

Christine McVie recorded Songbird on a nine-foot Steinway at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley; Ken Caillat used close and distant microphones to capture the piano and the room.

Ken Caillat’s original Rumours track-by-track interview

Reading the place today

Zellerbach is a working university performance venue. Consult Cal Performances for public events and access arrangements. The recording session does not establish access to its stage, piano or backstage rooms.