{"id":6687,"date":"2015-08-27T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2015-08-27T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:42:39","slug":"pink-floyd-inflatables-to-hit-auction-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/08\/pink-floyd-inflatables-to-hit-auction-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd inflatables to hit auction block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Pink Floyd inflatables, including the pig that flew over Battersea Power Station on the cover of the band&#8217;s 1977 album &#8220;Animals,&#8221; will be going up for bid.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 15, <strong>Durrants<\/strong> will auction off a collection of rock and roll inflatables, which also includes items associated with <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>&#8216;, solo; <strong>Queen<\/strong>; <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n<p>Other Floyd-related items will include a 15-foot anatomically-correct pig used by the Floyd after Waters&#8217; departure from the group; and a 60-foot pig\u2019s head and the teacher inflatable used during Waters\u2019 1990 concert of &#8220;The Wall&#8221; in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The items come from <strong>Rob Harries<\/strong>, owner of <strong>Air Artists<\/strong> in Halesworth, creator of the items.<\/p>\n<p>Algie (pictured), the pig from the &#8220;Animals&#8221; cover, famously broke free from its tether during photography. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/aubrey-powell.php\">Listen to Hipgnosis&#8217;s Aubrey &#8216;Po&#8217; Powell tell the story<\/a> when we spoke with him in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auctions.durrants.com\/auction-calendar.asp\">Details of the auction will be available at the Durrants website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Pink Floyd inflatables, including the pig that flew over Battersea Power Station on the cover of the band&#8217;s 1977 album &#8220;Animals,&#8221; will be going up for bid. On Sept. 15, Durrants will auction off a collection of rock and roll inflatables, which also includes items associated with Roger Waters&#8216;, solo; Queen; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-merchandise","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6689,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}