Animals

Animals is a 1977 album from the English band Pink Floyd.



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[hide] *Concept 1  ==Concept[ Edit] == It is a concept album that seems inspired by the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, because just like in the book the three central songs from the album animals use to describe human behavior, even though there is a completely different point of view. In the album are three species specifically mentioned:
 * 2 Tracks
 * 3 Occupation
 * 3.1 Additional personnel
 * 4 Cover
 * Tour 5
 * 6 Trivia
 * 7 chart positions
 * 8 external links

Pigs (Three Different Ones) kicks in addition to the General target group of moralists also specifically against the tyrants, zelfverheerlijkenden and Shins from "Mary Whitehouse". She was at that time a self-proclaimed protector of the British pop music mentality.
 * 1) Dogs represent the megalomaniacal businessmen, who think they have everything under control. However they go under at the end ("Dragged down by the stone").
 * 2) The pigs (pigs) refer to, and is an attack on, those who actually have control: politicians and opinion makers.
 * 3) The sheep (sheep) finally represent the remnant. They follow blindly, without self reflection and without opinion. However there is a glimmer of hope in the song when they are revolting and they kill a pursuing dog.

Both Sheep and Dogs existed for quite a few years before they would appear on the album. Was then called Sheep still "Raving and Drooling", and Dogs "You Gotta Be Crazy". All those numbers though rewritten, and changed the lyrics too. Originally both songs on the album Wish You Were Here appear. ==Tracks[ Edit] == ==Occupation[ Edit] == ===Additional staff<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Cover<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Battersea Power station<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The legendary inflatable pig that on the album cover and was later to see in their live shows, is the creation of Roger Waters. The original design is by VERY fromAmsterdam. The Photo of the Battersea Power Station power station is not a trick photo. In addition to the original cover is also a story behind the photo.
 * 1) "Pigs on the Wing 1" (Roger Waters) – 1: 25
 * 2) "Dogs" (David Gilmour/Roger Waters) – 17: 08
 * 3) "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (Roger Waters) – 11: 28
 * 4) "Sheep" (Roger Waters) – 10: 20
 * 5) "Pigs on the Wing 2" (Roger Waters) – 1: 25
 * Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, vocoder, tape effects, sleeve design
 * David Gilmour – guitar, bass guitar, vocals, talk box, synthesizer
 * Richard Wright – hammond organ, Fender Rhodespiano, Yamaha-piano, MiniMoog synthesizer, backing vocals
 * Nick Mason – drums, percussion, tape effects, sleeve graphics
 * Snowy White -guitar on "Pigs on the Wing" (on the 8-track cartridge version)
 * Brian Humphries – engineer
 * Storm Thorgerson – sleeve design
 * Aubrey Powell – sleeve design
 * James Guthrie – remastering producer
 * Doug Sax – remastering


 * Day 1
 * On the day when the photo would be taken were 11 photographers and 3 movie teams ready for the recordings. The air had a fantastic atmosphere with threatening clouds. There was one sniper hired unwittingly fly away from that, in the case of the pig, the balloon with a targeted advance towards Earth had to let come. However, it took so long honor the 13 meter long pig was bloated, that it has been in the air that day.


 * Day 2
 * The manager hired the second day the sniper not in, to save some money. The pig went on the air in, and was kept under control via long ropes to the ground.During the shooting, an unexpectedly strong gust of wind that the pig could escape. Even before there is a good picture was taken, they saw the pig quickly disappearing, and without sharp shooter was there no one who could do something about it. The pig floated in the official landing routes for aircraft with the destination Heathrow. A pilot did the first message, after which a policehelicopter on research went. Who reported a pig over London. The helicopter followed the unexpected flying object up to a height of 5,000 feet, after which it had to return. The aviation authorities issued a general warning to all the pilots that a 13 meters long, pink, flying pig flew uncontrolled over the capital. They could follow the pig on the radar to Detling, near to Chatham Kent, where it flew at an altitude of 18,000 feet already. The pig eventually fell on the land of a rural farmhouse to Kent. The Pink Floyd-team didn't have enough photographs for the album. The roadies were the pig that night on, and brought it back to London.


 * Day 3
 * In the meantime left the air in pig was botched again, on a day with clear blue skies. It was therefore necessary to eventually did a trick shot. The photo can be seen on the album is the air of the first day, combined with the pig of the third shooting day.

==Tour<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The on the album following In the Flesh tour was of a different order than the previous one. The show could actually only be performed in stadiums and arenas. They played for the masses.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During the tour was guitarist Snowy White added to the formation. On the eight-track tape version he plays a rare solo that the two parts of "Pigs On The Wing" together.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During the show in Montreal, on 6 July 1977, it happened infamous spit incident. Roger Waters had told several times during interviews that he found the live performances but a meaningless ritual. He regretted that right during his personal numbers there whistled, shouted and was gekrijsd by the public. Eventually had to suffer an innocent fan on the first row. Which was ignored by Roger in the face. David Gilmour left the stage after this incident first still unseen.

<p lang="en" len="117" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">It was during this tour that Roger Waters got the idea to raise a wall between himself and the public. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The inflatable pig appeared for the first time during the In the Flesh tour in Dortmund, January 1977. It appeared during the song from black smoke Pigs. Since then it was a fixed element in the shows by Pink Floyd, where it later emerged during "One of These Days". A smaller version was flying over the heads of the audience at the solo concerts by Roger Waters in 2007. Because the pig the brainchild of Roger Waters was he demanded, after leaving the band, he would get $ 800 each time the remaining band members would use the pig in a show. Who voted this in.