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    Pink Floyd used inflatable pink pigs as props in their live shows from the 1970s onwards. The first pig was called Algie and was photographed floating above Battersea Power Station for the cover of their 1977 album Animals. Over the years, various pigs escaped during concerts and became media sensations. Roger Waters continued using inflatable pigs in his solo tours. The pigs became iconic symbols strongly associated with Pink Floyd.

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    Pink Floyd used inflatable pink pigs as props in their live shows from the 1970s onwards. The first pig was called Algie and was photographed floating above Battersea Power Station for the cover of their 1977 album Animals. Over the years, various pigs escaped during concerts and became media sensations. Roger Waters continued using inflatable pigs in his solo tours. The pigs became iconic symbols strongly associated with Pink Floyd.

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    Pink Floyd used inflatable pink pigs as props in their live shows from the 1970s onwards. The first pig was called Algie and was photographed floating above Battersea Power Station for the cover of their 1977 album Animals. Over the years, various pigs escaped during concerts and became media sensations. Roger Waters continued using inflatable pigs in his solo tours. The pigs became iconic symbols strongly associated with Pink Floyd.

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    Pink Floyd pigs

    Inatable Pink Floyd ying pigs were one of the staple


    props of their live shows. The rst was a sow, but a very
    obviously male pig appeared in the 1980s. Pigs appeared
    numerous times in concerts by the band, promoting concerts and record releases, and on the cover of their 1977
    album Animals.

    On the second day, the marksman wasn't present because


    no one had told him to return. The pig broke free due to a
    strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press
    coverage. It disappeared from sight within ve minutes,
    and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in
    the air.[3] Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as
    The image rights for the pigs passed to Roger Waters the huge inatable pig ew through the path of aircraft,
    when he split from the rest of the group,[1] though the eastwards from Britain and out over the English Channel,
    [3]
    pigs continued to be used by both post-Roger Waters Pink nally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night.
    Floyd and Roger Waters in their gigs.
    The pig was recovered and repaired for the resumption of
    photography for the album cover, but unfortunately the
    sky was cloudless and blue, thus boring. However, the
    pictures of the sky from the rst day were suitable; even1 Animals
    tually, the album cover was created using a composite of
    photos from the rst and third days.[4]
    The pig that was originally oated above Battersea Power
    Station was called Algie.[5][6]

    2 In the Flesh
    After the album Animals was released in 1977, Pink
    Floyd began their In the Flesh tour. During concerts,
    the pig appeared around the PA stacks in a cloud of black
    smoke during performances of "Pigs (Three Dierent
    Ones)".

    The Wall

    The pig also appeared during each of Pink Floyds The


    Wall concerts, black instead of pink, with a crossed hammers logo on its side. Waters would occasionally refer to
    it directly before "Run Like Hell" (the pig appeared during the end of the previous song, "In the Flesh"). A short
    speech in reference to either the pig or the song was given
    in every show, with each speech being dierent; this oddity is used by bootleggers to identify which date a recording of the Wall tour was made on. At the Berlin concert,
    it was only the head and it had fangs and red eyes.[7]

    Backdrop from a Pink Floyd tour

    The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jerey
    Shaw with help of design team Hipgnosis,[2] in prepara- 4 Pink Floyds use of the pig posttion for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans
    Roger Waters
    were made to y the forty-foot, helium-lled balloon over
    Battersea Power Station on the rst days photo-shoot,
    with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it For the 1987/88/89 tour, the band added testicles to the
    broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
    pig. David Gilmour has said this was an attempt to get
    1

    around Roger Waters having the image rights for the pig
    [1]

    Pink Floyd added a 'deated' pig to Roger Waterss auction of animation art from the lm The Wall at Christies
    London on 21 September 1990, the lot was withdrawn
    before the auction started.
    During the 1994 tour, two warthog-like pigs with protruding tongues were shown at the top of the stage
    sides speaker towers, sometimes just deated, sometimes
    dropped on the ground after "One of These Days". This
    was also during Pulse, but for the VHS, Laserdisc and
    DVD releases, footage of the pigs falling was edited out.
    The pig made another appearance before the release of
    Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, when Capitol Records
    ew a replica of the original pig from Animals over the
    Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California.

    OTHER MEDIA

    During Waters performance at the 2008 Coachella


    Festival, one of the giant inatable pigs being used
    as a prop became untethered and oated away into
    the California desert. Organizers of the festival have
    oered a $10,000 reward plus free lifetime tickets
    to the festival in return for the pigs recovery. The
    pig was found three days later at a nearby country
    club.[8]
    Likewise, during the concert in Dallas, TX on 2 May
    2008, and Houston, TX on 4 May, the pig oated
    away.
    In a concert in Argentina on 2007, a pig ew and
    ended up on the Ro de la Plata.
    At Argentina tour dates in 2007, the pig had the
    Nunca Ms (Never again) inscription on its chest,
    referring to the famous slogan with which the Argentine people referred to the Dictatorship when 30,000
    people disappeared and were killed in the 1970s.
    During a concert in Chicago on June 8, 2012 at
    Wrigley Field, the pig crashed into the crowd behind
    home plate and was ripped to pieces by the crowd.

    6 Other media
    Algie replica ying over the Battersea Power Station on 26
    September 2011

    One damaged inatable pig, believed to be from the 1988


    Pink Floyd tour, was repaired by Nga Keith and own
    again over a concert by the band The String Cheese Incident in Austin, Texas on 20 September 2003. Reportedly
    purchased by The String Cheese Incident manager Mike
    Luba from a former Pink Floyd stagehand, the 40-foot
    pig ew again over the Austin City Limits Music Festival
    audience during a cover of Pink Floyds "Another Brick
    in the Wall (Part II)".
    During their Live 8 reunion with Waters, footage of Algie, over Battersea Power Station, was shown on a giant
    video screen behind the band.
    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 bands
    rst 14 studio albums.

    Roger Waters solo tours

    Main article: Inatable pigs on Roger Waters tours


    During a concert in Summerfest 2006, the pig had a
    message printed on it reading Impeach Bush"

    Pink Floyds inatable pig can be seen oating above


    Battersea Power Station in the 2010 movie Nanny
    McPhee Returns as the nanny and children make a
    motorcycle trip to London to locate the childrens
    father.
    Pink Floyds Inatable pig can also be seen oating
    outside Battersea Power Station in the 2006 movie
    Children of Men.
    Inatable pigs can sometimes be spotted oating
    around neighborhoods in 2004 video game The Sims
    2.
    In the 1996 Simpsons episode The Simpsons
    "Homerpalooza" a cannon res an inatable pig,
    which Peter Frampton claimed to have bought at
    a Pink Floyd yard sale, at Homer Simpson. Publicity for the UK release of The Simpsons Movie
    in 2007 also mimicked the original Animals cover
    shoot, with a giant inatable version of the lms
    Spiderpig character own above Battersea.
    During the Isles of Wonder short lm shot by
    Danny Boyle and shown as part of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,
    the camera zooms down the length of the Thames
    River, from a small spring in the countryside all the
    way to the Olympic venue. During the y-by, a pig
    can be seen oating above the Battersea Power Station [9]

    References

    [1] Animals Trivia and Quotes. Retrieved 5 June 2011.


    [2] Jerey Shaw, Pig for Pink Floyd"".
    netz.de. Retrieved 2009-05-21.

    medienkunst-

    [3] Gerald Scarfe (2010). The Making of Pink Floyd The


    Wall. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81997-1.
    [4] ""The Album Covers of Pink Floyd, By Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis Design, London.. superseventies.com.
    Retrieved 2009-05-21.
    [5] Austin Scaggs, A Pigs Tale: Roger Waters Traces the
    History of Rocks Most Famous Prop.. rollingstone.com.
    Archived from the original on September 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
    [6] Pigs On The Wing (Two Dierent Ones)....
    oyd.com. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

    pink-

    [7] The Wall Live Berlin 22 Run Like Hell.v. YouTube.


    [8] Pig found in La Quinta country club
    [9] Opening Ceremony: The Isles of Wonder - Video. NBC
    Olympics. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

    The Work of Hipgnosis: Walk Away Rene by


    Storm Thorgerson, (New York: A & W Visual Library, 1978), ISBN 0-89104-105-2.

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