KINGS OF OBLIVION

I've always been enthralled by musical connections. You know, like Neil Young's Southern Man and Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama.

Another one connects two really fine albums that I adored in my youth, Hunky Dory and Kings of Oblivion, both of which I still have in my small LP collection. Both well worth a listen!

In Bowie's groundbreaking album Hunky Dory released in 1971 Bowie uses the line "Kings of Oblivion" in the amazing track Bewley Brothers. 

You can here it here on You Tube https://youtu.be/r8IGkLWmf4E?t=231

Well, a couple of years later in 1973 the seminal rock punksters The Pink Fairies gave us the equally groundbreaking album called, yep, "Kings of Oblivion", so named after Bowie's fabulous phrase about the Bewley Brothers!

Furthermore the Pink Fairies album cover deploys three pink flying pigs in the style of flying ducks often seen over Seventies' mantlepieces. Besides the bands fascination with pigs, this suggestion of 'pigs might fly' for me has a whiff of the troubles ahead for the Fairies as Kings was sadly their swansong. The Fairies pig? Pigs might fly sort of thing. They should have been bigger than they were and fortunately nowadays they get some appreciation for the brilliant fast street rock they dashed out, a foretaste of punk rock that erupted a few years later.

We next see a flying pink pig - and surely its most famous outing - above Battersea Power Station on Pink Floyd's superb Animals LP in 1977.

Sadly the Fairies' pink pigs don't get a mention on Wikipedia's list of flying pig usage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_pigs_fly

So there's a few connections for the musos among you. Are there any you like?