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Gialloporpora from Treviso, ItalyThis is only my opinion. For me the song needs to be readed in the whole context of the album itselfs. Reuters was unable to verify the source of the photo circulating in May 2023, but it was included in a July 13, 2012, blog post ( here) about one of Waters’ concerts in Washington D.C. Matt from Russell Springs, KyThis is song is pretty badass, IMHO. I beg to differ with those who believe "Dogs" is the best song from "Animals". I think that distinction belong with the excellent guitar work and lyrics featured 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Waters' auction of animation art from the film The Wall at Christie's London, on 21 September 1990, but the lot was withdrawn before the auction started.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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We are here for the music and have been fans of Pink Floyd since childhood. This is perhaps one of the last opportunities to see a band member live,” said concertgoer Donat Balzer (pictured below). “We weren’t even aware of Roger Waters’ political views — we only learned about them in more detail over the last few weeks through the media.” Roger Waters concertgoers Donat Balzer (left) and Kent May in front of Frankfurt’s Festhalle on May 28 | Peter Wilke for POLITICO Algie was worked into a design by artists Andrew Saunders and Jeffrey Shaw and made in Germany by Ballon Fabrik, a company famed for its work on Zeppelin airships. But after its accidental jailbreak from the power station, by the time the pig returned from its unplanned trip to Kent the weather had turned. Powell was unable to shoot the same Turner-esque sky he had the day before. Hipgnosis resorted to cutting and pasting an earlier image of the pig onto their best 10x8 shot of the power station. Nothing about Algie was quite what it seemed to be. Rj from Campbellcroft, OnThis song is incredible, along with the rest of the album. Try listening to it when you're high or tripping balls and if you don't yet understand how the Animals album is so amazing you will after blaring it, high on something. Lol. An inflatable pig can also be seen floating outside Battersea Power Station in the 2006 movie Children of Men. [13]Spencer from Fixing A Holewell put wesley. plus, anyone telling other Floyd fans what to think obviously hasn't really absorbed the true meaning they're trying to get accross. 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. Frankfurt had tried to ban the concert over the accusations of antisemitism before a court gave Waters the green light. People gather for a protest outside Frankfurt’s Festhalle on May 28 | Peter Wilke for POLITICO

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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. Brendan from Mt. Airy, Mdand oldpink.....Waters wasn't using sarcasm there,(even though I know he is a fan of sarcasm), but the lyrics really read "Mary you're nearly a treat" We were all happy to give it a go,” says Gilmour. For the first time since 1968, Pink Floyd had passed over Hipgnosis’s ideas for one of their own. Thorgerson was furious: “I thought Roger’s pig was a tad silly, not to mention low on mystery and meaning,” he grumbled.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 ... Liquid Len from Ottawa, CanadaNothing at all to do with 'Animal Farm' (except there are animals representing different types of people in both). It's about self-righteous moralizers. One of David Gilmour's best solos at the end, and some of Roger Water's best bass work too.

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So, when Roger Waters sat down with Aubrey Powell and came up with the idea to send Algie the inflatable pig up above London landmark Battersea Power Station, people really took them seriously. “I’d always loved Battersea Power Station, just as a piece of architecture,” Waters later told Rolling Stone of the album’s conceptual artwork. The building rests in a previously undeveloped area of the capital, though now it has been given a billion-pound makeover. But for Waters, the building resonated with what he and the group were trying to achieve: “I thought it had some good symbolic connections with Pink Floyd as it was at that point,” he said. “One, I thought it was a power station, that’s pretty obvious. And two, that it had four legs. If you inverted it, it was like a table. And there were four bits to it, representing the four members of 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.” However, one Facebook user uploaded the image ( here) alongside the caption: “So apparently, THIS is what was on hand at Roger Waters' Berlin concert last night. Nah, nothing remotely antisemitic about a star of David on a pig.”