Looking back, it was in Florida where Lindsey Buckingham would pen and record the aforementioned breakup song for the ages: The band used their downtime from touring and rented a vacation house in the Sunshine State to work on new music that would eventually become Rumours. Criteria is where the band's first top-ten hit, 'Go Your Own Way,' came to life, along with several other tracks from the seminal album. In fact, Criteria Studios is responsible for one of rock's most iconic contributions, Fleetwood Mac's 1977 masterpiece, Rumours. Yet the city's stamp on the genre is not to be denied. If you tried picking up the phone to call the studio in its early days, all you had to do was dial MIAMI-5611.Ĭompared to cities like Memphis, Seattle, Austin, Nashville, or Detroit, Miami isn't typically associated with rock. Tucked behind a wrought-iron gate near North Miami resides Criteria Recording Studios, the birthplace of some of music's biggest hits, from artists and bands such as Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, ABBA, the Eagles, the Bee Gees, and James Brown.įounded as a one-room studio by Mack Emerman in 1958, the musical landmark is still bustling and churning out genre-spanning hits 63 years later.
