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Pig flies to mark the return of Pink Floyd
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September 27, 2011, Tuesday
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A LARGE inflatable pig flew above London's Battersea power station yesterday to mark the re-issue of British band Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums by record label EMI Music.
The animal, measuring 30 feet long and 15 feet high, was inflated with helium at dawn for the event, held 35 years after the making of the album cover for "Animals," which featured a flying pig.
EMI had planned to use the same inflatable pig, which has been kept at a workshop since the original shoot, but two weeks ago it was deemed not to be airworthy and a replica was made.
The artwork on the Animals album was a combination of a photograph of Battersea power station taken on December 2, 1976, and the pig snapped two days later.
But in the day between the two, the pig slipped its moorings and floated into Heathrow airport's flight path before being recovered by a farmer in Kent, southeast England.
Howard Bartrop, a photographer who worked on the shoot, said: "It was quite tricky that day. The pig floated away from the building and was spotted by commercial pilots landing at Heathrow.
"He then floated off toward Kent, followed by a police helicopter, landed in a farm and frightened the cattle.
"He was retrieved, patched up and put back in the air the next day so we could try to photograph him again."
Under the banner "Why Pink Floyd?" EMI Music is releasing all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums remastered and available digitally. They are also available as a box set.
Also on sale from yesterday were special editions of one of the band's most acclaimed albums, "The Dark Side of The Moon," extended to feature unreleased music from the Pink Floyd archives.
Pink Floyd, behind other seminal albums "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall," is one of the most successful rock bands of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide.
The group, also famous for its acrimonious split and one-off reunion at charity concert Live 8 in 2005, re-signed to long-time record label EMI in January in a five-year deal.
The agreement also brought to an end a legal dispute between the sides over EMI's right to "unbundle" their records and sell individual tracks online.
The animal, measuring 30 feet long and 15 feet high, was inflated with helium at dawn for the event, held 35 years after the making of the album cover for "Animals," which featured a flying pig.
EMI had planned to use the same inflatable pig, which has been kept at a workshop since the original shoot, but two weeks ago it was deemed not to be airworthy and a replica was made.
The artwork on the Animals album was a combination of a photograph of Battersea power station taken on December 2, 1976, and the pig snapped two days later.
But in the day between the two, the pig slipped its moorings and floated into Heathrow airport's flight path before being recovered by a farmer in Kent, southeast England.
Howard Bartrop, a photographer who worked on the shoot, said: "It was quite tricky that day. The pig floated away from the building and was spotted by commercial pilots landing at Heathrow.
"He then floated off toward Kent, followed by a police helicopter, landed in a farm and frightened the cattle.
"He was retrieved, patched up and put back in the air the next day so we could try to photograph him again."
Under the banner "Why Pink Floyd?" EMI Music is releasing all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums remastered and available digitally. They are also available as a box set.
Also on sale from yesterday were special editions of one of the band's most acclaimed albums, "The Dark Side of The Moon," extended to feature unreleased music from the Pink Floyd archives.
Pink Floyd, behind other seminal albums "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall," is one of the most successful rock bands of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide.
The group, also famous for its acrimonious split and one-off reunion at charity concert Live 8 in 2005, re-signed to long-time record label EMI in January in a five-year deal.
The agreement also brought to an end a legal dispute between the sides over EMI's right to "unbundle" their records and sell individual tracks online.
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