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a b c Gerald Scarfe (2010). The Making of Pink Floyd The Wall. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81997-1. in this song. I believe the only other song Gilmour uses it on would by years later on Keep Talking. 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).

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Francesco from Rome, ItalyHi, the first pig doesn't refer to someone in particular, but some say it was the Labour prime minister of the time the song was written. The second one is none other than Margaret Thatcher, conservative party leader of the time (and a true gun-happy hypocritical fake Christian, not to mention an ugly bag of s***) and the third one is Mary Whitehouse.

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In hindsight, we could have just photographed the pig in a studio. It wouldn’t have been as funny but it would have saved a lot of money,” said Thorgerson. He would also concede, years later, that “the pig wasn’t such a silly idea after all”. 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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During the "Isles of Wonder" short film 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 fly-by, a pig can be seen floating above the Battersea Power Station. [14] Joe from Great Beyonddoesn't seem to me well heeled big wheel i government, but the greedy rich that have too much influence over society. of course there are rich people in government, but....

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Chris from Hamilton, New ZealandWhen the giant pig broke free near Heathrow airport, a pilot of an incomming flight happend to see it. Poor bugger reported over the air. apparrently the ground control crew were in fits of laughter when they heard a report of a giant flying pink pig! 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.

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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.” During their Live 8 reunion with Waters, footage of Algie, over Battersea Power Station, was shown on a giant video screen behind the band. We knew the music and lyrics were fuelled and characterised by anger,” said Storm Thorgerson – who, with Aubrey “Po” Powell, co-founded Hipgnosis, the design group that had worked on all Pink Floyd’s album covers since 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets. “I can’t say that I cared for it much myself because I found it too angry compared to Wish You Were Here.” The first pig is, in this view, some producer or manager that use the band to make money, as a gold mine. The same concept threated also in Have a cigar and Welcome to the machine of the previous album (two songs, sheep and dogs, were to be included in Wish you were here). Pink Floyd added a 'deflated' pig to Roger Waters' auction of animation art from the film The Wall at Christie's London, on 21 September 1990, but the lot was withdrawn before the auction started. [ citation needed]

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Both Animal Farm and Animals use farm animals as metaphors for political issues, but Animal Farm is about Soviet Russia, while Animals is about Roger Waters' views on politics, etc. He may have read Animal Farm and been inspired by it, but he by no means ripped it off or anything. Bob from Lincoln, Nei think they read Gorge Orwells book animal farm before doin this it has similar themes My problem was making sure we had a good pig,” said EventStructure’s Dutch designer Theo Botschuijver. “The danger was that it could look like a Walt Disney figure – too friendly, chubby – and Floyd wanted something more aggressive. The woman at Ballon Fabrik didn’t like my pig. She wanted something jollier and I had trouble convincing her this was the pig the band wanted.” Rhcpguy from Arroyo Grande, Caif anyone has ever seen or read Animal Farm, it has just about the same meaning of this song. The pigs are the cruel overlords, the dogs are the law enforcers, and the sheep are the pedestrians taht follow the crowd and do what they're told.

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It could have been cataclysmic,” admits Mason. “We could have caused a major air disaster. Many years later, I met Captain David Voy, the police pilot sent to chase the pig. He told me that he didn’t have a hope in hell as the pig was climbing at a far greater rate than his helicopter.” Likewise, during the concert in Dallas, TX on 2 May 2008, and Houston, TX on 4 May, the pig floated away. 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. Day after day, during the broiling heatwave summer of 1976, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters would drive past Battersea Power Station on his way home to Clapham. He felt drawn to that towering monument to coal-fired energy. “Maybe it was the architect in me, but there was something menacing about the power station,” he says. “But I also liked it as a symbol for the band. It reminded me of an upside-down table, with four phalluses, and there were four people in a band that had been turned upside down.” Continent Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on the continent.Brad from Lexington, KyYes, the 3rd verse refers to mary whitehouse explicitly, it even uses her name ( Hey! You Whitehouse. Ha ha charade you are!) but I feel it couldve been written about 3 different pigs. They are George W. Bush, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. Brendan from Mt. Airy, MdHey Chloe, charade is pretty much a person who is phoney, a fake, a deceiver. A quality of all Pigs Kevin from Southington, CtPink Floyd did actually take pictures of the inflatable pig while it was in the air hanging from the factory but they didn't use any of the pictures because they didn't like the way the sky looked in any of them. They ended up taking a picture without the pig and then adding the pig from one of the other pictures. David Gilmour did play bass on this song as he did on a few other songs including "Hey You".