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== Tour ==<!-- [[File:Soldier Field Chicago aerial view.jpg|alt=Photo of a large, empty stadium with a city skyline in the background.|right|thumb|The band played at [[Soldier Field]] in Chicago during their [[In the Flesh Tour]] in 1977.]] --> ''Animals'' became the subject material for the band's [[In the Flesh (Pink Floyd tour)|In the Flesh Tour]], which began in [[Dortmund]] on the same day the album was released. The tour continued through continental Europe in February, the UK in March, the United States for three weeks in April and May, and another three weeks in the United States in June and July. ''Algie'' became the inspiration for a number of pig themes used throughout. An inflatable pig was floated over the audience, and during each performance was replaced with a cheaper, but explosive version. On one occasion the mild [[propane]] gas was replaced with an oxygen-acetylene mixture, producing a massive (and dangerous) explosion. German promoter Marcel Avram presented the band with a piglet in Munich, only for it to leave a trail of broken mirrors and excrement across its mirrored hotel room, leaving manager O'Rourke to deal with the resulting fallout.<ref>{{Harvnb|Mason|2005|pp=225β226}}</ref> The band was augmented by familiar figures such as [[Dick Parry]] and [[Snowy White]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Blake|2008|pp=248β249}}</ref> but relations within the band became fraught. Waters took to arriving at the venues alone, departing as soon as each performance was over. On one occasion, Wright flew back to England, threatening to leave the band. The size of the venues was also an issue; in Chicago, the promoters claimed to have sold out the 67,000-person regular capacity of the [[Soldier Field]] stadium (after which ticket sales should have been ended), but Waters and O'Rourke were suspicious. They hired a helicopter, photographer and attorney, and discovered that the actual attendance was 95,000; a shortfall to the band of $640,000.<ref>{{Harvnb|Blake|2008|pp=252β253}}</ref> The end of the tour was a low point for Gilmour, who felt that Pink Floyd had achieved the success they had sought and that there was nothing they could look forward to.<ref>{{Harvnb|Mason|2005|p=230}}</ref> In July 1977 β on the final date at the [[Olympic Stadium (Montreal)|Montreal Olympic Stadium]] β a small group of noisy and excited fans in the front row of the audience irritated Waters to such an extent that he spat at one of them, which he later said he immediately regretted. Gilmour also felt depressed about playing to such large audiences, and refused to join his bandmates for their third encore.<ref name="Masonpp235236">{{Harvnb|Mason|2005|pp=235β236}}</ref>{{sfn|Povey|2007|p=217}} Waters later spoke with the producer [[Bob Ezrin]] and told him of his sense of alienation on the tour, and how he sometimes felt like building a wall to separate himself from the audience. The incident formed the concept for the next Pink Floyd album, ''[[The Wall]]''.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}
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