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Pink Floyd to release Animals 50th-anniversary box set with rare tracks
Pink Floyd is marking 50 years of Animals with a box set due out on Jan.
22.
The album was released in January 1977, between Wish You Were Here and The Wall.
Animals is a concept album about bleak life in late-1970s Britain, inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm and the rise of punk.
Its most expansive edition will include the original album, its 2018 remix, five rarities and a recording of a 1977 Oakland concert.
The rarities include the previously unreleased song “Young Nicholas Jon” by Roger Waters.
A radio edit of one 10-minute song, shortened to four and a half minutes, is now available and had not been commercially released before.
The box set also includes a 64-page book with writing, an interview and material about the album cover.
Pink Floyd has announced Animals 50, an anniversary collection for its 1977 album, due for release on January 22.
The collection will be available in multiple formats, including a deluxe box set with rare and previously unreleased music.
The newly unveiled “Sheep (Original Radio Edit)” shortens the song to a radio-length version.
The deluxe set includes a 64-page book with material from author Jonathan Lethem, bootlegger Reinhard Hohlwein and designer Audrey “Po” Powell.
The sources give different dates for the Oakland Coliseum Arena concert included in the set: May 5 and May 9, 1977.
- Who
- Pink Floyd.
- What
- The band announced Animals 50, an anniversary collection featuring rare and previously unreleased music.
- When
- Announced November 5, 2026; scheduled for release January 22.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- To mark the 50th anniversary of the album Animals.
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Pink Floyd released Animals.
The Oakland Coliseum Arena concert included in the collection was recorded; the sources give different dates.
Pink Floyd announced Animals 50 and unveiled “Sheep (Original Radio Edit).
Animals 50 is scheduled for release.
- Album
- Animals
- Original release
- January 1977
- Collection release
- January 22
- Rare track
- Young Nicholas Jon
- Concert venue
- Oakland Coliseum Arena
- Book
- 64 pages
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What people are saying
I’d driven past Battersea Power Station every day going to and from my house in Clapham.
The mood in music was changing in ’77.
There were all sorts of differences beginning to surface within the band but in some ways Animals was a remarkably cohesive enterprise.