Over the weekend Roger Waters mocked Donald Trump with a satirical video display during a performance of the song “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” from the 1977 album Animals. Waters posted it on his Facebook page in time for the inauguration, but the Mexico City performance was recorded last September when Trump was only the Republican nominee. The song and the video are more relevant now that Trump is the actual president, and now that we’re celebrating Pink Floyd’s Animals‘ 40th birthday in 2017.
Here’s some footage of a show in Anaheim in 1977 featuring one of the pig balloons exploding into a ball of fire above a concert crowd that were probably watching a very enhanced version of this flaming swine crashing from the sky…
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