Feb 16, 2020 · The pig from the album cover appeared in three of the photos. In black and white, the pig looked more menacing, like a Macy’s parade float that had gone rogue. The photos suggested a vacant industrial mill, perhaps after the sheep …

Dec 27, 2024 · Pink Floyd’s cover for their 1977 album Animals is a prime example of iconic album artwork. Captured at the art deco Battersea Power Station in south London, the image presents a stark and bleak scene, with thick, inky plumes of smoke obscuring what might have once been a clear blue sky.

Apr 23, 2015 · We rounded up 50 of the most iconic pieces of album artwork from indie releases from Joy Division, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Nirvana, The Smiths, Strokes, Killers and more and dived into their...

Jan 21, 2021 · The flying pig worked its way into stage show, on Pink Floyd tours with and without Waters and during Waters' solo concerts. In 2011, the band recreated the cover to announce a reissue of...

One of the aspects of collating all the information about these albums is for Neil to dig deep into the “well-how-did-they-arrive-at-that-cover.” One of the more colourful album covers that was in Island’s repertoire then features a pigs head smoking a joint, wearing sunglasses, with headphones on.

Dec 2, 2024 · On the album cover photoshoot’s second day, a huge gust of wind pulled the pig (which the band had nicknamed “Algie”) out of its restraints and sent it flying free in the sky.

The famous cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album, released in 1977, was created by the Hipnogis collective based on an idea by Roger Waters. It features a pig floating above Battersea power station, inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm .

Pink Floyd's iconic cover for the album Animals has been reconstructed with an inflatable pig floating over Battersea Power Station. Like us on Facebook at h...

Jan 26, 2017 · The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys of the Battersea Power Station was conceived by the band's bassist and lead songwriter Roger Waters, and was designed by long-time collaborator Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis.

May 17, 2024 · Featuring one of the best Pink Floyd album covers of all time – an iconic image of an inflatable pig flying over London’s Battersea Power Station, designed by the era-defining Hipgnosis team – the record was lauded for its rousing and confrontational dystopian concept, chiming with the emerging political consciousness of the UK punk scene.