Pink Floyd’s flying pig sale grounded

PINK Floyd’s beloved inflatable pig Algie has been pulled from the auction block — because the band desperately want him back.

An inflatable pink pig, which was made famous on the sleeve of the 1976 Pink Floyd album 'Animals', and flies once again ove...

PINK Floyd’s beloved inflatable pig has been pulled from the auction block — because the band want him back.

THE owners of the blow-up creature, which featured on the cover of the rock band’s 1977 album Animals, were planning to sell Algie as part of a massive clear out of their UK warehouse.

But the band mates have stepped in to stop the sale.

Prop ... a large inflatable pig floats above a Pink Floyd concert on August 5, 1980. Picture: Supplied

A spokesman for UK auction house Durrants told ABC News Radio: “Pink Floyd came back and said that they wanted to have him back and rehome him ... I think after the huge amount of publicity that has been generated, the band thought that Algie should go back to them.”

The pig was created by Air Artists.

English rockers ... Pink Floyd can’t let go of Algie. Picture: Supplied

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Originally published as Pink Floyd’s flying pig sale grounded