Pink Floyd Plays The Animals: 1977 In Review

1977 marked the final time that the Pink Floyd line-up of Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour and Nick Mason embarked on an extensive tour. Taking in 55 shows and spanning seven months from the end of January to the beginning of July, the In The Flesh tour saw the band play venues across Europe and North America in support of their newly released studio album Animals. During the first half of the show the band performed the five songs from the Animals album for the only time in their history and the second half of the show was also notable for being the only time that Pink Floyd played the Wish You Were Here album in full. This book spotlights Pink Floyd in 1977; the album, the tour, the pig, the spitting incident and the aftermath...