A large inflatable pig flew above London’s Battersea Power Station on Monday in a stunt designed to mark the re-issue of Pink Floyd’s 14 studio albums by record label EMI Music.

The animal, measuring 30 feet long and 15 feet high, was inflated with helium at dawn for the event, held 35 years after the making of the iconic album cover for Animals, featuring a similar flying pig.

EMI had planned to use the same inflatable which had been kept at a workshop since the original shoot, but it was deemed not airworthy and a replica was made.

The artwork on the Animals album was a combination of the background of Battersea Power Station taken on December 2, 1976, and the pig photographed on December 4.

On December 3 that year, the pig slipped its moorings and floated into the Heathrow airport flight path before being recovered by a farmer.

Under the banner "Why Pink Floyd...?" EMI Music is releasing all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums remastered and digitally. They are also available as one box sex.

Also on sale from Monday are special editions of one of the band’s most acclaimed albums, The Dark Side of The Moon, extended to feature unreleased music from Pink Floyd archives.

Pink Floyd is one of the most successful rock bands of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide.

The group, also famous for its acrimonious split and one-off reunion at charity concert Live 8 in 2005, re-signed to long time record label EMI in January in a five-year deal.

The agreement also brought to an end a legal dispute between the sides over EMI’s right to sell individual tracks online.

Agencies