Hipgnosis 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 ...

Getting over a frontman like Roger Waters would never be easy, but David Gilmour made the whole thing look like second nature ...

A team from Pink Floyd’s road crew were despatched that evening to go and retrieve the giant pig. Returned to Battersea the following day - apparently unharmed after its unexpected excursion ...

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With each success, Pink Floyd – or, more accurately ... Handbag-wielding moralist Mary Whitehouse is clearly the target on Pigs (“You got to stem the evil tide, keep it all on the inside”), while the ...