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Pink Floyd's flying pig cover recreated in celebration of upcoming boxset

by Tyler Munro

Pink Floyd’s infamous flying pig flew again today in celebration of the upcoming Why Pink Floyd…? campaign, which remasters and re-releases each of the band’s 14 studio albums in various formats and collections.

Actually, that part about the pig was a bit of a lie.

While a big pink pig was flown above London’s Battersea Power Station in a celebratory recreation of Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover, it was actually a replica. Algie, the original pig, was deemed unfit for flight after EMI realized it was too leaky to stay airborn. In a fitting metaphor for the remasters, the new pig was bigger, better and decidedly more modernized, having been welded from fancy-pants PVC. [via Brain Damage]