During their Live 8 reunion with Waters, footage of Algie, over Battersea Power Station, was shown on a giant video screen behind the band. 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”. Alex from Town, CtI'm sorry, this has nothing to do with George Orwell's Animal Farm. That's just stupid. They both paint Pigs as the greedy animals, but that's where the similarities end. It's obvious this album is based on some of the dirty dealings and greed inspired by Western Capitalism. Animal Farm was a book criticizing Russian Communism. Old Major was Lenin, the founder of Communism. The two pigs after (Snowball and Napoleon I believe) were supposed to be Stalin and Trotsky. They worked together at first, but eventually Napoleon (Stalin) ran Snowball (Trotsky) out and in real life he was killed in Mexico. As you can see Animal Farm is clearly about Russian Communism during the mid-1900s, and I think it's obvious that the album Animals is NOT. During the November pogrom, the Festhalle became a prison-like place for about 3,000 Jews,” Heike Drummer, curator for contemporary history at Frankfurt’s Jewish Museum, explained to POLITICO. From the Festhalle, Jews were sent to concentration camps where they faced horrific conditions and often death.

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The text “Anne Frank” appears on large screens during Waters’ May 28 concert at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany | Peter Wilke for POLITICO 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".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. For example, the pigs are greedy, control-hungry dictators who take advantage of their power. This is expressed in the song, and it's is a glimpse of what happens in a society where dictators take over. This song is awesome and very powerful.

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The third pig is the government. Hey you Whitehouse, ha ha, charade you are (white house happens to be where the president lives) You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are ( the government is proud of the society they are controlling) You're trying to keep our feelings off the street (government suppression, trying to keep our feelings of discontent in our heads rather than protesting them in public) And keep it all on the inside (basically keep all your concerns/troubles/rebellion to yourself) Later in 1968, George Harrison sang Piggies on the Beatles’ White Album. Was it a protest against rich businessmen? Whatever it was, this childlike ditty was one of the songs that inspired Charles Manson, the American criminal, singer-songwriter and Haight-Ashbury cult leader, and his followers to murder actress Sharon Tate and eight other “piggies” in an orgy of savage killings in the summer of 1969. The second pig is referring to the police. You like the feel of steel (a cops love for the power he gets holding his gun). You're hot stuff with a hat pin (feeling like the "bees knees" because of the societal status/authority his uniform gives him) And good fun with a hand gun (a trigger happy police man who is just waiting to use his gun on someone) Brendan from Mt. Airy, MdHey Chloe, charade is pretty much a person who is phoney, a fake, a deceiver. A quality of all Pigs

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Tom from Norman, OkHmm, surprised no one has mentioned this yet. Pig #2 is supposed to be Margaret Thatcher, whose politics Waters obviously did not agree with. At all. "Good fun with a handgun" is basically saying he wants to shoot her. Waters has said as much many times. Eran from Tel Aviv, Israel"Pigs" is definatly my favorite pink floyd song of them all , I still do not know to whom the first pig reffers to , but it is pretty obvious the second one is reffering to Margaret Thatcher , or to some other woman , as Waters saying " You (deleted) up old hag " , meaning a Witch ... 3rd 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 .. but i suppose that since Whitehouse is no longer alive he will never preform it ever again ...

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During the 1994 tour, two warthog-like pigs with protruding tongues were shown at the top of the stage side's speaker towers, sometimes just deflated, sometimes dropped on the ground after " One of These Days". This was also during Pulse, but for the VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray releases, footage of the pigs falling was edited out. [ citation needed] Jason Lee from New York, NyThis album is clearly inspired by Orwell's Animal farm (as Waters has said), but it is not based on it. They both use the same tool (animal representation of humans), but they use it to portray different messages. Verbalg from Bear Grass, IsraelThe song is about how religion taints everything and has divided the world. The three pigs are: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ha, Ha, charade you are.....The pig that was originally floated above Battersea Power Station was called "Algie". [6] [7] In the Flesh [ edit ] 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.” Flying pigs have been a part of Pink Floyd’s (and Waters’) image for more than 40 years, first appearing on the sleeve of the 1977 “Animals” album. In past Waters shows, the inflatable pig has worn the Star of David; this time, when the giant pig balloon floated through the concert hall, it was emblazoned with the logo of the Israeli arms company “Elbit Systems.” Michele from Nyc, NjI find it quiet fascinating that everyone points to the obvious reference of the government being the pigs and the lambs being those who fall under their dierison....however, did anyone EVER listen to MOTHER and think perhaps in some way the pig has some conotation to his mother? seems alomist subconsciously obvious and I'm not on any THC to make this profound call....is anybiody out there? just knod if you can hear me? is ther anyone at all? Whether you're from Las Vegas, New York, Texas, Florida, Chicago or from Hawaii or any other state in the country, we can ship your Giant Animal Inflatable Prop anywhere in the United States. Creatable Inflatables manufacturing and rental facility is located in Los Angeles California.