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They ended up taking a picture without the pig and then adding the pig from one of the other pictures. During the heyday of the 1970s rock scene, album artwork was, at times, as important as the music inside it — artists took this stuff seriously and applied both their creative energy and budget to make sure the artwork was simply perfect. Hipgnosis resorted to cutting and pasting an earlier image of the pig onto their best 10x8 shot of the power station. It is likely no mistake that Pink Floyd’s Animals album was a kind of vivisection of the darker side of humanity – or that it was heralded by the flying pig, although Algie himself seemed rather comic. The giant inflatable pig of The Dark Side of the Moon Live tour at Coachella Music Festival on April, 2008.

When Pink Floyd let a giant inflatable pig loose over London

The stuff of urban, rural and aviation legend, Algie was a pig made in press heaven, creating headlines as he helped sell long-playing records. The members of Pink Floyd, however, were traumatised by the effect that LSD had on their colleague Syd Barrett, who was excluded from the group in April 1968 as he became catatonic and unable to perform.

Brian from Saco, Methis is probably the most underrated cd by pink floyd, this song in particular is my favorite off the cd, yet it never got very popular. My problem was making sure we had a good pig,” said EventStructure’s Dutch designer Theo Botschuijver. Crossing into the flight path of an international airport does, as one might imagine, attract some unwanted attention and The Civil Aviation Authority issued a warning to all pilots to be on the lookout for flying pigs — and it wasn’t even April 1st. In 2011, a replica of the original pig floated again between the two iconic chimneys, in celebration of a massive reissue project from the band.

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I hate it when musicians and celebrities use there fame to impose their beliefs on others, especially me being a conservative which I am probably the only one on this page.Interfering in everybody's life, making a nuisance of herself and trying to drag English society back to an age of Victorian propriety.

Pink Floyd might recreate the flying pig at Battersea Power

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. As a symbol, it alludes to everything from anti-establishment protests to Orwellian dystopia – even to the Manson murders. Roger Waters and artist Aubrey Powell, co-founder of the art group Hipgnosis, came up with the concept of an inflatable pig floating over Britain's iconic Battersea Power Station. The chase would finally come to an end when the pig eventually came down and crashed into a barn on a dairy farm in Godmersham in Kent for some bacon-sized irony.

Spectators around the protesters tried to snatch the flags from their hands before security personnel intervened. Thorgerson was furious: “I thought Roger’s pig was a tad silly, not to mention low on mystery and meaning,” he grumbled. In 1977, Pink Floyd created the iconic album artwork for ‘Animals’, by flying a massive inflatable pig over Battersea Power Station. This was also during Pulse, but for the VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray releases, footage of the pigs falling was edited out. They symbolised the authorities that beat up protesting students in US university campuses and busted members of English rock bands, including The Beatles.

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After all the flights were forced to be grounded, Powell, the co-founder of art group Hipgnosis who worked closely with Pink Floyd on a lot of their designs, was arrested.The three pigs are people who stop him from making good music or to convey his message to fans (sheeps). Try listening to it when you're high or tripping balls and if you don't yet understand how the Animals album is so amazing you will after blaring it, high on something. Other videos show that Waters used a white pig, which did not feature a Star of David, in his 2023 Berlin shows (from 2:30: here) (from 1:40: here) (from 1:15:08: here).