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Scala, once the King’s Cross Cinema

275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, London

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Transformer: the studio sound and the live photograph

Mick Rock photographs the performance used on the sleeve

1972

Mick Rock took the photograph used on Lou Reed’s Transformer cover during a live performance at King’s Cross Cinema, later known as Scala.

Reed and Rock return to Scala to discuss Transformer

5 September 2013

Lou Reed and Mick Rock returned to Scala, formerly King’s Cross Cinema, on 5 September 2013 for a discussion of their Transformer book.

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