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THE GREAT PIG IN THE SKY

ew images sum up the change in progressive music as much as the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals. The heavily treated picture of Battersea Power Station with an inflatable pig was, at once, a joke, but also a statement against the bloated plutocracy that seemed to be ruling the UK at that point. Before, there were sleeves that could be pored over for meaning; but here, in the gatefold was a rubbish tip, a puddle, a washbasin… very 1977. It was,

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