Pink Floyd: Flying pig not for sale
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Sentimental … an inflatable pink pig, made famous on the sleeve of the 1976 Pink Floyd album ‘Animals’, flies once again over Battersea Power Station in south west London. Picture: AP Photo/Joel Ryan
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PINK Floyd’s beloved inflatable pig has been pulled from the auction block — because the band want him back.
THE owners of the blow-up creature, which featured on the cover of the rock band’s 1977 album Animals, were planning to sell Algie as part of a massive clear out of their UK warehouse.
But the band mates have stepped in to stop the sale.
Prop … a large inflatable pig floats above a Pink Floyd concert on August 5, 1980. Picture: Supplied
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A spokesman for UK auction house Durrants told ABC News Radio: “Pink Floyd came back and said that they wanted to have him back and rehome him … I think after the huge amount of publicity that has been generated, the band thought that Algie should go back to them.”
The pig was created by Air Artists.
English rockers … Pink Floyd can’t let go of Algie. Picture: Supplied
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