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Battersea Power Station (seen here in 2008) is the subject for the album's cover image. Once the album was complete, work began on its cover. Hipgnosis, designer of the band's previous album covers, offered three ideas, one of which was a small child entering his parents' bedroom to find them having sex: "copulating, like animals!" [20]
Algie replica flying over the Battersea Power Station on 26 September 2011. The original Pink Floyd pig, a 12-metre (40 ft), helium-filled balloon, was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of design team Hipgnosis, [2] in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired ... appearance on the cover of rock band Pink ... of Pink Floyd's 1977 album, Animals, ...
Some album covers prove controversial due to their titles alone. When the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks…in 1977, a record shop owner in Nottingham named Chris Searle was arrested ...
Battersea Power Station is featured in the cover image for Animals. In 1975, Pink Floyd bought a three-storey group of church halls at 35 Britannia Row in Islington and began converting them into a recording studio and storage space. [145] In 1976, they recorded their tenth album, Animals, in their newly finished 24-track studio. [146]
Hooverphonic recorded the song "Battersea" for the 1999 album Blue Wonder Power Milk. Battersea is the setting for Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea, the second published volume in the Wolves Chronicles. Battersea Power Station is featured on the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals.
It has become one of the most recognisable rock album covers. [31] [32] The cover of Animals features an inflatable pig moored to Battersea Power Station that broke free and drifted into airspace. [33] The Wall features a minimalist design on the front cover, while the inside sleeve shows cartoons of the principal characters in the story, both ...
The Best of The Animals is the first greatest hits collection by the British rock group the Animals. MGM Records released the album in February 1966 in the United States. It showcases the Animals' tough-edged pop hits combined with their more devoted blues and R&B workouts. The album has been reissued with some different tracks and a similar ...