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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: John Mayer

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.3943 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter John Mayer gives Tracy Smith a tour of the Chaplin Recording Studios, part of the historic Hollywood lot he purchased, alongside director McG, to preserve a part of L.A.'s cultural history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official

0:05.5

after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then

0:11.2

join me, 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem,

0:17.2

where we bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels.

0:24.1

Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.0

This is Mo Rocca.

0:43.5

Musician John Mayer and director Mick G.

0:45.2

Have something big in common.

0:49.3

And they're telling Sunday morning's Tracy Smith all about it.

0:51.6

So these are the recording studios? Yes.

0:52.5

This is Chaplin Recording Studios.

0:55.8

Oh, it has such a nice smell.

0:58.3

Thank you.

0:59.3

We have new carpet smell.

1:01.1

The carpet is actually custom made to look exactly like the carpet

1:05.2

that was here in the 70s and 80s when it was A&M Studios.

1:08.4

Seriously.

1:09.4

Yes.

1:09.9

So that was one thing I thought, okay, let's have a historical nod.

1:15.6

And this is what was here, it was close to it.

1:20.6

So I did a little bit of what McG did with the paint, where pick a couple things that have a nod to the past. And all the photography is either from my collection or

1:32.3

I picked it out for this place or it was donated to the building.

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