Extreme Listening Mode!

Imagine it; you are legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, and you are headlining the huge California festival Coachella. It’s getting towards the end of the show, and in amongst the plethora of special effects and dazzling crowd-pleasing tricks, you unleash your gigantic floating pig. That’s not a euphemism, by the way – I know California is famously liberal and all that, but even they have limits. So what’s a boy to do? I mean, it’s not like it’s the first time. It famously broke loose from moorings at Battersea Park Power Station in 1977 at the ‘Animals’ album launch. You begin to suspect that the pig just wasn’t meant to stay with old Rog. I mean, once, fine, but twice? That’s a cry for help, surely.

But maybe not…if you belive the sentiment behind ‘if you love something, set it free’. Because, the pig, miraculously returned to Waters! Admittedly, after a $10,000 reward was advertised and it crashed into a residential street near the festival site. That’s got to be a tough credibility gap to any parent in the area who has ever used the phrase ‘when pigs fly’ to their kid.

Me? I’m just happy this whole sorry tale turned out positive. Man and pig reunited, tour continues, disaster averted. It’s a heartwarmer, I’m sure you’ll agree.

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