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Joe from Grants Pass, OrIt's quite amazing Roger almost kept his bass out of the mix (in and out ) ! Brendan from Mt. Airy, Mdand oldpink.....Waters wasn't using sarcasm there,(even though I know he is a fan of sarcasm), but the lyrics really read "Mary you're nearly a treat" Michael from Kearny, NjRoger Waters said in an interview that the animals represent the class system in Britain. Pigs being the wealthy upper class, who make their fortunes off of the blood and sweat of the working class (the sheep, or are born into wealth. The dogs, of course are the white collar middle and upper-middle class business types. The original idea for this album WAS LOOSELY inspired by George Orwell's "Animal Farm"(Waters has said this himself). a b c Gerald Scarfe (2010). The Making of Pink Floyd The Wall. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81997-1. Faraci, Devin (4 January 2007). "Exclusive Interview: Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men)". Chud.com . Retrieved 8 February 2007.

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Ryan, Jim. "Roger Waters Emphasizes Communication As 'This Is Not A Drill' Tour Hits Chicago". Forbes . Retrieved 2022-09-01. A replica of Algie was tethered above Battersea Power Station on 26 September 2011 to promote the Why Pink Floyd...? campaign, involving the reissue of the band's first 14 studio albums. The next day, the photographers returned to their locations and waited for Algie to arrive. Film-maker Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon was also shooting the pig’s maiden flight for a potential TV commercial. Lesmoir-Gordon, his camera crew and Hipgnosis’s stills photographer, Rob Brimson, had been allocated places in a Jet Ranger 206B helicopter. Its pilot, Marc Wolff, had flown combat missions over Vietnam and would later coordinate aerial stunts for several James Bond movies. Somebody asked for the pig to get higher, the guy from Germany loosened the winch and it started to unwind,” recalled Botschuijver. “He jerked the brake and I heard “Ding!” The ring broke. Oldpink from New Castle, InSome of Roger's most sarcastic lyrics, especially the "Mary, you're really a treat/Mary, you're really a treat, but you're really a cry"The Album Covers of Pink Floyd", By Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis Design, London". superseventies.com . Retrieved 21 May 2009. Matt from Russell Springs, KyThis is song is pretty badass, IMHO. I beg to differ with those who believe "Dogs" is the best song from "Animals". I think that distinction belong with the excellent guitar work and lyrics featured here. On the second day, 3 December 1976, the marksman was again not present because no one had told him to return. A gust of wind tore the pig loose. It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. [3] Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig continued eastwards across flight lanes and out over the English Channel, finally landing that night on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows. [3] [4] Brendan from Mt. Airy, MdHey Chloe, charade is pretty much a person who is phoney, a fake, a deceiver. A quality of all Pigs Everybody thought we’d let it go on purpose, as a publicity stunt, and I sometimes think we should have,” said Thorgerson. “Either way, it was the best publicity the Floyd could have had for any new album.”

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For Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, as for George Harrison, pigs had a meaning of sorts. Perhaps both songwriters were influenced by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the darkly satirical fable first published in 1945 that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Orwell’s pigs were corrupt, venal, drunken, violent – and, in all too many ways, very much like us. In the book’s famous last sentence, the humbled creatures of Animal Farm, standing outside the farmhouse where pigs and men were drinking together, “looked from pig to man, and man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Daniel from Perth, AustraliaMan, I love this song. Probably the best on the album and one of Waters' overall best. The first lines of each verse (...Ha ha, charade you were) are brilliant. Mike from AmericaThe song is not only about politics but human behavior as well. Pigs are the elite of society, the upper echelon, decision makers and providers of goods. Dogs are the mid-level, trying to get to the next step, doing whatever they have to to get there. Sheep are the low, passive, subservient that are the masses, content to stay on the bottom. The general concept of the album is to imagine the Sheep violently revolting against these ideas and reversing these roles. We received permission from Battersea,” explains Powell. “The only thing they were worried about was the pig banging into one of the chimneys. I reassured them it was only a plastic pig.” Jim from Long Beach, CaThis song is about when the police arrested fans at Pink Floyd in Los Angeles in 1975. They were "taking libeties" on the hippies using their powers to beat them and take their drugs..I remember hearing the report on the radio. I was 11.

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See also: Animals (Pink Floyd album) Algie replica flying over the Battersea Power Station on 26 September 2011 It's highly recommended reserving your Giant Inflatable Animal Prop at least 3 weeks in advance. To make sure you receive your Giant Inflatable Animal Prop on your reserve date we recommend a 50% advance deposit. Verbalg from Bear Grass, IsraelThe song is about how religion taints everything and has divided the world. The three pigs are: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ha, Ha, charade you are..... A person who says that American politics is controlled by rich Jews, who blows up balloons in the shape of pigs with a Star of David and shoots them down — we don’t want someone like that in this city,” Frankfurt Mayor Mike Josef said, standing in front of the demonstrators. Frankfurt had tried to ban the concert over the accusations of antisemitism before a court gave Waters the green light. People gather for a protest outside Frankfurt’s Festhalle on May 28 | Peter Wilke for POLITICO For the 1987–1989 tour, the band added testicles to the pig, which David Gilmour has said was an attempt to get around Roger Waters having the image rights for the pig. [1]

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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters included a flying inflatable pig with a Star of David on it at concerts at least 10 years ago, not at a show in Berlin in May 2023, as has been claimed online. Mourad from Lebanon, OtherI am a really big Floyd fan! Love them more than anything, especially Roger Waters -the creative genius of Pink Floyd-. I think the best 5 Pink Floyd's and which are a must to have are: Dark Side At The Moon,Wish You Were Here,Animals,The Wall and The Final Cut. The pig that was originally floated above Battersea Power Station was called "Algie". [6] [7] In the Flesh [ edit ] We were all happy to give it a go,” says Gilmour. For the first time since 1968, Pink Floyd had passed over Hipgnosis’s ideas for one of their own. Thorgerson was furious: “I thought Roger’s pig was a tad silly, not to mention low on mystery and meaning,” he grumbled. Eran from Tel Aviv, Israel"Pigs" is definatly my favorite pink floyd song of them all , I still do not know to whom the first pig reffers to , but it is pretty obvious the second one is reffering to Margaret Thatcher , or to some other woman , as Waters saying " You (deleted) up old hag " , meaning a Witch ... 3rd one is definatly reffering To Mary whitehouse , and ive seen Waters preforms half a year ago and was praying that he would sing this song .. but i suppose that since Whitehouse is no longer alive he will never preform it ever again ...Mitchell from Redding, CaAfter reading the book, Animal Farm, I instantly knew that this Pink Floyd song (actually the whole album "Animals"0 was based on the themes of George Orwell's powerful book. For example, the pigs are greedy, control-hungry dictators who take advantage of their power. This is expressed in the song, and it's is a glimpse of what happens in a society where dictators take over. This song is awesome and very powerful. Jeanette from Irvine, Cai can see where part of it might be inspired by "animal farm" but it's not exactly the same message so it's certainly not based on it. thats what i think anyway.