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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]
Along with studio musicians, the two recorded the album, Eric Is Here, recorded in late 1966 and released in March 1967. The album featured "Help Me Girl", released as a successful single in both the UK and the US. In mid October 1966, Burdon formed a complete group under the name Eric Burdon and The Animals, continuing with Jenkins as drummer.
The album marked a reunion of the five original Animals from the group's first incarnation — Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel, in their first recording sessions since 1965. [8] Bassist Chandler produced the effort using his Barn Records team.
The Forbes family has decided to unload their historic London home, Old Battersea House, which Malcolm Forbes purchased in the early 1970s. (See our photo gallery of the Old Battersea House.)
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]
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.
"Pigs on the Wing" is a two-part song by English rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album Animals, opening and closing the album. [1] According to various interviews, it was written by Roger Waters as a declaration of love to his new wife Carolyne Christie.
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