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In The Flesh
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Track:
Pigs On The Wing (Part 1)
According to an
AP report, tattered halves of Roger Water’s beloved inflatable pig have been found by a two families in their yards after it was last seen floating off during Waters' Sunday evening Coachella set. Susan Stolz of La Quinta, California found the plastic tattered remains in her driveway on Monday. She had no clue what it was and thus didn’t reach out to festival organizers till she caught news of the missing 40-foot, helium-filled balloon story yesterday in the
Desert Sun Newspaper. "My kids are going to think I'm so cool," Stolz said.Judy Rimmer, who lives in Stolz' neighborhood, also found a piece of the liberal pig which had things like "Don't be led to the slaughter," "Fear builds walls" and "Obama" scribbled all over it on a plant in her frontyard.She and Rimmer will split the $10,000 bounty and 4 free ticket to Coachella for life offered by festival organizers.Waters conceptualized the pig originally for Pink Floyd's tour in support of the 1977 album
Animals, which featured the song 'Pigs' and 'Pigs on the Wing.' Waters has been lugging the hog with him on his “Dark Side of The Moon” tour for the last 2 years. This isn’t the first time Waters has gone on a hog chase. In 1977 during a photo shoot for
Animals cover art, which depicts the pig between two of London’s Battersea Power Station chimneys, it floated away. According to Wikipedia “…the pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind (gaining a lot of press coverage). It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at forty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night.”
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