You've heard of swine flu.  How about the swine that flew?  Algie, the inflatable pig that Pink Floyd commissioned to be photographed floating between the smokestacks of the Battersea Power Station for the cover of the Animals album broke loose after the photo for the album cover was taken  on this day in 1976 and briefly disrupted flights at Heathrow airport before being recovered from a field in Kent.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events that took place on December 2 include...

 

1952 Doobie Brothers keyboard player/vocalist Michael McDonald born.

1960 Def Leppard drummer Rick Savage born.

1968 George Harrison releases Wonderwall.

1969 George Harrison starts touring with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.

1973 Who play Montreal Forum and get arrested after the concert for causing $6,000 damage to the suite in their hotel.

1975 Queen releases A Night At The Opera.

1979 Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge divorce.

1994 REM's Michael Stipe opens vegetarian restaurant in Georgia.

1997 Rolling Stones fan killed in a fall from the balcony during the group's Pontiac Silverdome concert in Michigan.

1998 Jimmy Buffett does benefit for Hurricane relief benefit in Mobile, Alabama.

2003 Alice Cooper gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2006 Bruce Springsteen joins two bands for songs at a Parkinsons Disease fund raiser at a club in Sayerville, NJ.

2008 Bono receives Nobel Man of Peace award in Paris.

2009 Alan Parsons Project songwriter, pianist, singer abd producer Eric Wolfson dies of kidney cancer at 64.

2012 Led Zeppelin gets Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC,

2014 Sax player Bobby Keys dies in Franklin, Tennessee of Liver cancer at 70.
2022 Nazz release Lost Masters and Demos.

2023 KISS closes out its final tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City.