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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