Prince may have gotten $4.8 million to play Coachella, but poor Roger Waters left the festival without his signature inflatable concert pig. During the former Pink Floyd frontman’s set on Sunday April 27th, the pig broke from its strings and drifted over the crowd and out into the night, making the saying “when pigs fly” actually valid for once.
For those unfamiliar with Waters’ set, the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon in the shape of a pig was conceptualized 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.
A $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life are being offered for the pig, Reuters reports. Organizers are asking that anyone that may know the whereabouts of the lost pig should email lostpig@coachella.com.
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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