Pink Floyd / Povey,Glenn - The Animals Tour: A Visual History - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Limited edition deluxe box set, signed by the author Glenn Povey, also includes reproduction memorabilia and a CD of interviews with band recorded in 1977. InchPink Floyd - The Animals Tour - A Visual HistoryInch documents both the history of the recording of the Animals album and the supporting tours which remains one of the most fascinating periods in Pink Floyd's history. Pink Floyd's 10th studio album InchAnimalsInch was released almost 10 years on from their psychedelic debut that launched the band on to the world stage. But this couldn't be farther from InchThe Piper At The Gates Of DawnInch if you tried It was a hard-hitting politically charged heavy rock album. It's three central pieces, InchPigs (Three Different Ones)Inch, InchDogsInch and InchSheepInch each extending to over 10 minutes each drew parallels with George Orwell's dystopian nightmare InchAnimal FarmInch. It's lyrics continued to project Roger Waters' eternal themes of life's struggles where the subservient masses are sheep controlled by tyrannical pigs and authoritarian dogs. Recorded over the summer of 1976, in the space of time it took punk to both explode and promptly fizzle out, at their own Britannia Row studios in north London, it also marked a shift from their traditional base of EMI at Abbey Road. Arguably one of Pink Floyd's least well recorded works it does however hold a fond place in many fans hearts and Animals has enjoyed a legacy - Roger Waters in particular reviving those tracks to shoehorn into his own politically charged live solo shows in recent years. The corresponding tour through the first half of 1977 was also not without compromise and built on the stadium spectacular that had been successfully developed over the previous two years of touring. Creatively, there was no limit to their ambition as large-scale inflatable structures, screen films, special effects and state o