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<blockquote data-quote="Paddington" data-source="post: 5165292" data-attributes="member: 252"><p>Our journey begins with a story of mayhem in the skies above the south bank of the Thames, outside the largest brick building in Europe.</p><p></p><p>To create the artwork for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, a giant inflatable pig has been raised on a chain above Battersea Power Station - this was the 1970s after all.</p><p></p><p>"Suddenly there was a large crack and the pig sailed up into the sky," sleeve designer <a href="http://www.aubreypowell.com/HOME.html" target="_blank">Aubrey Powell</a> said.</p><p></p><p>"A helicopter followed but it couldn't catch it up.</p><p></p><p>"We were really scared. I feared there would be a terrible airline crash."</p><p></p><p>The members of the prog rock group scarpered, air traffic into Heathrow was cancelled, RAF jets were dispatched and pilots reported seeing a pig flying at about 20,000ft (6,100m).</p><p></p><p>Powell was taken to his studio by police and, following a message put out on local radio stations, a farmer from Kent called to complain that a rogue pig had landed in his field and was frightening his cows.</p><p></p><p>The shoot was repeated with more success the following day, but the final cover is actually a collage of the pig stuck on a photo of the power station taken two days before.</p><p></p><p>"I love the image, it's fabulous. It was so haphazard and amateurish but it just happened to work," Powell said.</p><p></p><p>BBC NEWS ITEM</p><p></p><p><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/418E/production/_101128761_mediaitem101128760.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Image copyrightPA</p><p>Image captionAn inflatable pig again flew over the power station to mark the album's 35th anniversary in 2011</p><p>If a pig were to be released above the building these days, it could well get caught up in the many cranes rising above the structure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paddington, post: 5165292, member: 252"] Our journey begins with a story of mayhem in the skies above the south bank of the Thames, outside the largest brick building in Europe. To create the artwork for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, a giant inflatable pig has been raised on a chain above Battersea Power Station - this was the 1970s after all. "Suddenly there was a large crack and the pig sailed up into the sky," sleeve designer [URL='http://www.aubreypowell.com/HOME.html']Aubrey Powell[/URL] said. "A helicopter followed but it couldn't catch it up. "We were really scared. I feared there would be a terrible airline crash." The members of the prog rock group scarpered, air traffic into Heathrow was cancelled, RAF jets were dispatched and pilots reported seeing a pig flying at about 20,000ft (6,100m). Powell was taken to his studio by police and, following a message put out on local radio stations, a farmer from Kent called to complain that a rogue pig had landed in his field and was frightening his cows. The shoot was repeated with more success the following day, but the final cover is actually a collage of the pig stuck on a photo of the power station taken two days before. "I love the image, it's fabulous. It was so haphazard and amateurish but it just happened to work," Powell said. BBC NEWS ITEM [IMG]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/418E/production/_101128761_mediaitem101128760.jpg[/IMG]Image copyrightPA Image captionAn inflatable pig again flew over the power station to mark the album's 35th anniversary in 2011 If a pig were to be released above the building these days, it could well get caught up in the many cranes rising above the structure. [/QUOTE]
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