Apparently, this version only appeared on the 8-track; I’ve been listening to Animals in various media for 25 years and I’ve never heard this before. Also: Animals is the best Pink Floyd album, and I’ll brook no insolence from any of you on this. Second-best is Dark Side. Do not befoul my Comment Section with your Ummagumma blather. Just accept that I am right with dignity and quiet gratitude.

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Battersea Power Station has to be the most famous power plant in the world, right? Is there even a list, or is the iconic brick building sui generis? Are we counting Chernobyl? I would argue that the event that is now referred to as “Chernobyl” is well-known, but not the actual building.

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The technology existed in 1977 to fake the image, but Pink Floyd was a big-time rockyroll act, and were therefore allowed to do whatever they hell they wanted, so a giant inflatable pig was created, filled with helium, and tethered to the south tower, where it remained for a good three or four minutes before floating directly into the flight path of Heathrow Airport. I am not making that up.

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When I mentioned 8 -track cassettes, every Enthusiast of a certain age heard the kuh-CHACK of the tape reversing in the dashboard of their mom’s Vega.