Pink Floyd’s Flying Pig Escaped To Kent’s Countryside

Pink Floyd wanted one perfect photograph for the cover of Animals. Instead, they lost a forty-foot inflatable pig, disrupted British airspace, called in a marksman, and eventually discovered that reality refused to cooperate. Discover the unbelievable true story behind one of rock music’s most iconic album covers, where three days of bad weather, unexpected chaos and analogue photo manipulation transformed a production disaster into music history. Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity. The true stories cameras never captured. Based on true stories. 🌐 Explore C3 Comedy — Episodes, Shop & More https://c3comedy.com ☕ Support future episodes https://buymeacoffee.com/c3comedy Series: The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture This content is satire and commentary based on publicly available information. 00:00 Pilot Pig 00:28 Who’s Algie? 00:56 Calling The Marksman 01:28 Old Production Reel 02:03 Day 1 (Bad Weather) 02:58 Day 2 (Clear To Go) 03:54 Algie Scares British Airways 05:01 Military Gets Involved 05:23 Algie’s Descent Into The Countryside 06:00 Day 3 (Let’s Try It Again) 06:26 Still Not Happy (And The Solution) 06:49 Support C3 Comedy (Buy Me A Coffee)