Royal Windsor Racecourse · Maidenhead Road, Windsor · today
Headley GrangeEast Hampshire · private
Fleetwood Mac rehearsed at Headley Grange before Led Zeppelin went there to record in 1971. A private house. Named here, never mapped.
Windsor · West Hampstead · Sausalito · Los Angeles
Fleetwood MacThe rooms, the tape and the outfield, 1967–1997
Five cards face down. Turn one. Faces: Warner Bros. Records, 1977, Public domain.
A racecourse in 1967, a song through a studio wall, a demo cut with a razor in Sausalito, 112 players in an outfield. Turn the five, then go where they were made.
Windsor and West Hampstead · 13 August 1967
A new band on the bill.
National Jazz & Blues Festival · Windsor · Sunday 13 August 1967
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
- Peter Greenguitar
- Mick Fleetwooddrums
- Jeremy Spencerslide guitar
- Bob Brunningbass
Sunday 13 August: Brunning on bass for the first show.
On Sunday 13 August a new band played its first show here, billed as Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac.
Green led on guitar, with Mick Fleetwood on drums, Jeremy Spencer on slide guitar and Bob Brunning on bass.
The seventh National Jazz and Blues Festival ran from 11 to 13 August 1967 on the Balloon Meadow at Royal Windsor Racecourse. In July 2017 the racecourse held On Track for Summer, a day recreating the 1967 festival.
A working racecourse beside the Thames; go on a race or event day. Fireworks Night is on Saturday 7 November 2026.
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9 September 1967
Decca Studios
On 9 September 1967, after hours, the producer Mike Vernon quietly let the new band in to record: Fleetwood, Brunning, Spencer and Green.
Historic England names Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac among the blues bands who made key records here in the later 1960s, with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Ten Years After.
Built in 1884 as workshops, the building was a town hall, then a recording studio from 1928. Decca took it over in 1937 and stayed until 1981. It was listed at Grade II in 2021 as the earliest surviving commercial recording studio complex in Britain.
Now Lilian Baylis House, a listed building owned by English National Opera. See it from Broadhurst Gardens; there is no public access.
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Atherton · 1966–1971
Lindsey Buckingham grew up in Atherton and went to Menlo-Atherton High School. Stevie Nicks was at the same school, a year ahead of him.
From 1966 he played bass and sang in a school band, the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band, shortened to Fritz in 1967. He asked Nicks to join it as a backing singer.
In 1972 the two made demos on a four-track recorder at his father’s coffee plant in Daly City, then drove to Los Angeles. Polydor released their album, Buckingham Nicks, in September 1973 and dropped the duo soon after for poor sales.
A working public high school. See it from Middlefield Road; the campus is not open to visitors. 53 km from the Record Plant as the crow flies.
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Sound City, Van Nuys · 1974
Through the wall.
Studio B is busy. Studio A is quiet.
The studio opened in 1969 in a former factory of the English amplifier maker Vox. The studio closed in 2011 and reopened to outside artists in 2017.
A working studio, not open to visitors. See it from Cabrito Road.
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2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito · February 1976
Cut the leader in.
Rumours began here in February 1976. The band spent the first two months of the album in Sausalito.
The Record Plant opened at 2200 Bridgeway with a party on 29 October 1972, built as the industry’s first resort studio. Ken Caillat found the main room very dead, about 30 by 20 feet, and it took eight or nine days to get a sound he liked.
Editing blockKeep Me There · demo reel
A drawing of the idea, not the real reel.
Keep Me There, as demoed. Find the verses.
A Christine McVie demo, Keep Me There, became part of The Chain. Buckingham had Caillat cut blank tape into the reel exactly where the verses were.
The studio building still stands on Bridgeway. Look from the street; it is not open to visitors.
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The Inn Above Tide
The Inn Above Tide
Sausalito, California
Thirty-three rooms and suites built over the water at 30 El Portal, Sausalito, a short walk from the ferry. Bridgeway and the old Record Plant are along the shore.
Check ratesWally Heider’s, Los Angeles · the Sausalito masters · 1976
Worn out.
Sausalito ran two 24-track machines on the basic tracks, so the band had twin first-generation masters.
Out by +5. Listen in one ear, then the other.
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Berkeley and North Miami · 1976
Two rooms, two ways.
Zellerbach Hall
Christine McVie’s Songbird was recorded in an all-night session at the Zellerbach Auditorium, across the bay from Sausalito.
Caillat felt the song needed the sound of a concert hall. Today it is the main hall of Cal Performances, with 1,978 seats.
The main hall of Cal Performances, 1,978 seats. Book a show to go in. 21 km across the bay from the Record Plant.
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Christine McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, aged 79, after a short illness. The band said there were no words for their sadness.
Criteria Studios
Here Caillat built the Go Your Own Way guitar solo from several takes, switching between them on the faders as the tape ran.
Three takes on the faders. Build the solo bar by bar.
Fleetwood Mac recorded parts of Rumours in Studio C. Founded in 1958, the studio was the Hit Factory Criteria from 1999 and took back its old name in 2017.
A working studio, not open to visitors. See it from NE 149th Street.
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The Village, West Los Angeles · 1978–1979
Studio D
Tusk was made in Studio D, the newest room at the Village Recorder, and Fleetwood Mac were the first band to use it.
Some work began in early summer 1978 after two months of rehearsal; the main sessions started in September, after the summer tour. It became a double album of 20 new songs from the band’s three songwriters.
Studio D is still taking sessions, and the studio’s own history page shows the band at work there.
A working studio, not open to visitors. See it from Butler Avenue.
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Dodger Stadium · June 1979
112 in the outfield.
0 of 112 players on the grass.
In early June the band recorded the title track here, with 112 members of the USC Trojan Marching Band playing live in the outfield.
The song grew from a riff Buckingham played at soundchecks, called Stage Riff. Fleetwood had the idea for a marching band after hearing a local brass band in Barfleur, France.
Stadium tours run daily in English and last 75 minutes, with a trip to the field.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Dodger Stadium tour
Elysian Park, Los Angeles · 75 minutes · English tours daily
The standard stadium tour includes a trip to the field, where the USC band stood in 1979. English tours run daily; Spanish on Saturdays; Japanese on set days.
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23 May 1997
One more night.
On 23 May 1997 the Rumours line-up played a single concert here for an MTV special, The Dance.
The five had not released an album together since Tango in the Night in 1987. The USC marching band came back to play Tusk and Don’t Stop.
The live album came out on 19 August 1997 and went straight in at number one in the US, the band’s first since Mirage in 1982.
The Studio Tour Hollywood runs 8.30am to 3.30pm; closed 3–5 and 26 November. 12 km from Dodger Stadium.
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Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood
Burbank, California · 8.30am–3.30pm · closed 3–5 and 26 November
A guided tour of the working lot in Burbank where the Rumours line-up played The Dance in 1997.
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Where it is now
10 places you can visit. Headley Grange is a private house and is not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working racecourse beside the Thames; go on a race or event day. Fireworks Night is on Saturday 7 November 2026.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Now Lilian Baylis House, a listed building owned by English National Opera. See it from Broadhurst Gardens; there is no public access.
Royal Windsor Racecourse from Maidenhead Road, 2022. Bryn Holmes · CC BY-SA 2.0 Maidenhead Road, Windsor
Royal Windsor Racecourse
The seventh National Jazz and Blues Festival ran from 11 to 13 August 1967 on the Balloon Meadow at Royal Windsor Racecourse.
A working racecourse beside the Thames; go on a race or event day. Fireworks Night is on Saturday 7 November 2026.
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Lilian Baylis House, the former Decca studios, 165 Broadhurst Gardens, 2023. Jim Osley · CC BY-SA 2.0 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead
Decca Studios
On 9 September 1967, after hours, the producer Mike Vernon quietly let the new band in to record: Fleetwood, Brunning, Spencer and Green.
Now Lilian Baylis House, a listed building owned by English National Opera. See it from Broadhurst Gardens; there is no public access.
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Sleep on the water in Sausalito.
A small hotel over the bay, along the shore from Bridgeway.
The Inn Above Tide
The Inn Above Tide
Sausalito, California
Thirty-three rooms and suites built over the water at 30 El Portal, Sausalito, a short walk from the ferry. Bridgeway and the old Record Plant are along the shore.
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Walk the field, tour the lot.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Dodger Stadium tour
Elysian Park, Los Angeles · 75 minutes · English tours daily
The standard stadium tour includes a trip to the field, where the USC band stood in 1979. English tours run daily; Spanish on Saturdays; Japanese on set days.
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Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood
Burbank, California · 8.30am–3.30pm · closed 3–5 and 26 November
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Windsor in November.
The racecourse of the first show holds its Fireworks Night.
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Fleetwood Mac, Oakland Coliseum (1977)
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Making Rumours
Ken Caillat with Steve Stiefel
The Rumours sessions told by the engineer who cut the tape.
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Mick Fleetwood with Anthony Bozza
Mick Fleetwood’s memoir, in his own words.
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Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac · LP, Blue Horizon 7-63200, 1968
The first album, by the 1967 blues line-up.
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Fleetwood Mac · LP, Reprise MS 2225, 1975
Ten days at Sound City with the new five-piece.
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac · LP, Warner Bros. K 56344, 1977
Begun in Sausalito, finished across Berkeley, Miami and Los Angeles.
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Tusk
Fleetwood Mac · 2LP, Warner Bros. 2HS 3350, 1979
Twenty songs from Studio D; the title track from the Dodger Stadium outfield.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
11 of 11 places · 14 of 14 Moments
Royal Windsor Racecourse
Maidenhead Road, Windsor
First show
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac play their first show, at the Windsor festival.
Decca Studios
165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead
After hours
Mike Vernon lets the new band into Decca’s studios after hours.
Headley Grange
East Hampshire
A rehearsal house
The band rehearse at a Hampshire house.
Menlo-Atherton High School
Middlefield Road, Atherton
Fritz
Buckingham’s school band; Nicks joins as a backing singer.
Sound City
15456 Cabrito Road, Van Nuys
A mental note
Fleetwood hears Frozen Love at Sound City and remembers the pair.
Ten days
The new five-piece records its first album.
The Record Plant
2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito
Sausalito
Rumours begins at the Record Plant.
Keep Me There
Blank tape cut in where the verses were; the start of The Chain.
Worn out
The twin Sausalito master saves the overdubbed tapes.
Zellerbach Hall
UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley
One night in a hall
Songbird, recorded all night in an empty auditorium.
Criteria Studios
1755 NE 149th Street, North Miami
The solo
A guitar solo built from several takes on the faders.
The Village
1616 Butler Avenue, West Los Angeles
Studio D
Tusk, the first record made in the Village’s new room.
Dodger Stadium
1000 Vin Scully Avenue, Elysian Park
112 in the outfield
The USC Trojan Marching Band records Tusk live in the outfield.
Warner Bros. Studios
3400 Warner Boulevard, Burbank
The Dance
The Rumours line-up plays one concert for MTV.