You’ve heard of the Pink Floyd song “When the Tigers Broke Free?” Well, let’s look back at the time when the pig broke free. To get to the bottom of this strange-but-true classic rock tale ...

No words of explanation were needed. The pig spelled Pink Floyd as surely as Ummagumma or The Dark Side of the Moon. Inflatable flying pigs have been a part of the English rock band’s image for ...

In 1977, Pink Floyd created the iconic album artwork for ‘Animals’, by flying a massive inflatable pig over Battersea Power Station. The original photo took three days to get. During the 1976 ...

A pub famous for its links with rock band Pink Floyd is set to be demolished, despite an earlier apparent reprieve. The Flying Pig in Cambridge is a popular live music venue, but has been under ...

On 3rd December 1976, a 40-foot inflatable pig broke its mooring above Battersea ... Down below, members of Pink Floyd leapt into their cars and fled the scene, a photo shoot for their album ...

inflatable pig flying through the factory towers. “It’s a symbol of hope,” Waters explained, per Mark Blake’s 2008 book, Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Hipgnosis ...

Pink Floyd is one of the most successful bands ... album logos and set props like the Flying Pig, likely are. This means collecting revenues from Spotify and Apple; licensing individual songs ...

There will be no inflatable pigs flying over the audience Friday ... But while the more extravagant props that enhanced the concerts of Pink Floyd from the 1970s onward won’t be employed ...

Among the 415 album covers Hipgnosis made between 1968 and 1983 was Pink Floyd’s “Animals” (1977), for which a 40-foot inflatable pig was photographed floating between the chimneys of London ...