Columbia \/ EMI<\/span><\/p> “Pigs on a Wing” originally opened and closed Animals<\/em> in snippet form and only featured writer Roger Waters<\/a> strumming an acoustic guitar. Waters has said the song began as love letter to his new wife, Carolyne. The 8-Tracks<\/em> version joins the two parts with a connecting guitar solo by Snowy White, who served as a touring member on Pink Floyd’s In the Flesh Tour in 1977. <\/p>\n The solo had been an audition of sorts, played during White’s very first meeting with the band. “We went back into the control room and Roger says, ‘While you’re here, why don’t you play a solo on this song I’ve just done called ‘Pigs on the Wing’?” White later told Yahoo<\/a>. “I said, ‘That’d be nice.'”<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Ranking Every Pink Floyd Album<\/a><\/p>\n David Gilmour<\/a> handed White his legendary white Stratocaster, and White played the solo after hearing “Pigs on a Wing” just once. Ironically, White was not a fan. <\/p>\n “Pink Floyd didn\u2019t mean anything to me, as I was a very narrow-minded blues player, so if it didn’t have blues in it, I wasn’t interested,” he added. “Also, I didn’t know anything about them. But then somebody said, ‘Why don’t you ring them up? Won’t hurt to find out a bit more.'” <\/p>\n Pink Floyd, ‘8-Tracks’ Track Listing<\/strong><\/p>\n Side A Side B Typically created by designers associated with London-based Hipgnosis, the images work on a parallel track to frame the band’s impish humor, wild imagination, sharp commentary and flair for the absurd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Listen to Paul Rappaport on the ‘UCR Podcast’<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nPink Floyd’s Extended Version of ‘Pigs on the Wing’<\/h3>\n
1. “One of These Days”
2. “Wot’s \u2026 Uh the Deal”
3. “Money”
4. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2”<\/p>\n
1. “Wish You Were Here”
2. “Time”
3. “Comfortably Numb”
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