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Inflatable flying pigs have been a part of the English rock band’s image for 40 years, ever since the first of the breed – named Algie by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and doing its bit to advertise the 1977 Animals album – broke free from one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station and flew, unplanned, to a farm in Kent.

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I can’t say that I cared for it much myself because I found it too angry compared to Wish You Were Here.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 . Michael from Kearny, NjRoger Waters said in an interview that the animals represent the class system in Britain.

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In 1977, Pink Floyd created the iconic album artwork for ‘Animals’, by flying a massive inflatable pig over Battersea Power Station. Spectators around the protesters tried to snatch the flags from their hands before security personnel intervened. In a tweet on Friday, Waters wrote: "The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms. 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. Whether it was an epic publicity stunt or a genuine mishap remains a topic of debate in some circles.

Thorgerson was furious: “I thought Roger’s pig was a tad silly, not to mention low on mystery and meaning,” he grumbled. 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. Giant helium filled pigs are not renowned for their flying qualities so we hoped that there would be little or no wind at this time of the morning and we were luckily proved correct. to/Animals) and the animal features in three of the album’s five song names, with pigs representing wealth, authority and destruction, as the musician explained in a Sept. photo shoot, as the 40-foot balloon broke from its moorings on one of Battersea's southern chimneys, rising directly into the path of planes landing at Heathrow Airport.

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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. Powellstill marvels over "the most incredible, [Joseph Mallord William] Turner-esque sky" they had for the first shoot. Bryan from New York, NyOne of the reasons that Orwell's Animal Farm and Floyd's Animals are so similar is because of the natural connotations that go along w/ all these different albums. 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.

This story is a part of BBC Britain – a series focused on exploring this extraordinary island, one story at a time. Not only was their growing musical majesty accruing yet more steam, but their artistry had spread out from the studio and found itself nestled into every facet of their being.