CaLL OF tHe WiLD

“Pigs is a fairly compa ssionate scream of abuse. If you can scream abuse in a compassionate way.”
Roger Waters

It was 1976 and Pink Floyd were a band on the brink of cultural obsolescence. In the wake of Wish You Were Here, the tills had kept ringing, but when John Lydon – recently rechristened Johnny Rotten – skulked across London that year in his mythologised ‘I hate Pink Floyd’ T-shirt, it caught the sentiment of British youth for whom the quartet were millionaire windbags, cosseted from life at the sharp end and representing all that punk had come to tear down.

Ironic, then, that even as the new guard bayed for their blood, Pink Floyd were busy recording an album of such anti-establishment malice that it would make the Sex Pistols’ sound like a is a very violent album.”