Roger Waters of Pink Floyd played the closing act for the three-day Coachella music festival in California Sunday, April 27, 2008.- The act included a large pig balloon similar to ones used by the band in the past.
- The underside of the pig balloon had the word "Obama" with a checked box next to it. Other messages on the pig included the phrases “Don’t be led to the slaughter” and "Fear builds walls".
- Waters announced his support of Obama previously saying:
"Please God, let's not have this woman (Hillary)! Hillary will want to make her mark and show that she can be just as good as a male president, and she will f**cking invade Iran. Trust me. She voted to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist organisation! I would buy a whole page in The New York Times and fly Obama's flag. But I would be terribly afraid they'd go, 'this is that pinkosh*tbag who's attacking our President in a time of war'."
- The pig balloon which is reported to be as tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, broke free of its lines and floated away after Roger Waters played a version of Pink Floyd’s song “Pigs on the Wing” from their 1977 album “Animals”.
- The remnants of the balloon were later found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta, California. The families will share the $10,000 and four life tickets offered as a reward by Coachella festival.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1914331/Flying-Pink-Floyd-'Obama'-pig-found.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7374994.stm
http://www.nme.com/news/pink-floyd/35842
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_pigshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CydPIf3b-Mc
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