John Mayer calls it \u201cadult day care\u201d: the historic recording studio behind the arched gates on La Brea Avenue where famous musicians have been keeping themselves \u2014 and one another \u2014 creatively occupied since the mid-1960s. Known for decades as Henson Studios \u2014 and as A&M Studios before that \u2014 the 3-acre complex in the heart of Hollywood has played host to the creation of some of music\u2019s most celebrated records, among them Carole King\u2019s \u201cTapestry,\u201d Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cBlue,\u201d Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 \u201cUse Your Illusion\u201d and D\u2019Angelo\u2019s \u201cBlack Messiah.\u201d Charlie Chaplin, who was born in London, began building the lot in 1917 in a white-and-brown English Tudor style; he went on to direct some of his best-known films, including \u201cModern Times\u201d and \u201cThe Great Dictator,\u201d on the property. In 1966, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss bought the place and made it the base for their A&M Records; they converted two of the lot\u2019s soundstages into high-end recording studios that drew the likes of Sergio Mendes, the Carpenters, Stevie Nicks, U2 and John Lennon. <\/p>\n
In 1985, A&M\u2019s parquet-floored Studio A was where Quincy Jones gathered the all-star congregation that recorded \u201cWe Are the World\u201d in a marathon overnight session; in 2014, Daft Punk evoked the studios\u2019 wood-paneled splendor in a performance of \u201cGet Lucky\u201d with Stevie Wonder at the 56th Grammy Awards. <\/p>\n
Now, with an eye on preserving the spot at a moment of widespread upheaval in the entertainment industry, Mayer and his business partner, the filmmaker McG, have finalized a purchase of the lot, which they bought for $44 million from the family of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson and which they\u2019ve renamed Chaplin Studios in honor of the silent-film giant who broke ground on it more than a century ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Mayer calls it \u201cadult day care\u201d: the historic recording studio behind the arched gates on La Brea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2007,73043,7625,1409,79745,79746,79743,79740,48,52,51,79741,47,50,49,63,79739,79742,2850,16328,79744],"class_list":{"0":"post-165114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-algorithm","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-demise","13":"tag-exorbitant-concert-ticket-price","14":"tag-hotel-lobby","15":"tag-l-a-music-history","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-legendary-site","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-los-angeles-times","24":"tag-music-fan","25":"tag-pleasure","26":"tag-star","27":"tag-sunset-strip","28":"tag-world-class-recording-studio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}