rollingstone.com - 5/21/2008
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In Issue 1053, Rolling Stone tracks the story of perhaps
the most famous prop in the history of rock & roll: Pink
Floyd's inflatable pig. From the hog's humble beginnings on the
cover of Floyd's 1977 album Animals to its recent
unpiloted escape from Coachella, the creature has become a
pop-culture icon (it even merited a reference on an episode of
The Simpsons ). The man who dreamed up the floating swine,
Roger Waters, shared the tale behind the pig, from its origins in
the late Seventies to ...
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