In Music
- Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals was partially inspired by Animal Farm. It categorises people as pigs, dogs, or sheep. The album cover has an image of Battersea Power Station which is also an image used in the film of 1984.
- R.E.M.'s song Disturbance At The Heron House is based on Animal Farm.
- The Clash used an image from the 1954 animated movie Animal Farm on their 45-RPM single "English Civil War".
- Canadian-based band Boxer the Horse takes its name from a character in the novel.(http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/3/-QA-with-Boxer-the-Horse-5-PEI-artists-you-should-be-listening-to)
- Dead prez based a song on their 2000 album, Let's Get Free called "Animal in Man" based on the novella, putting emphasis on how the other animals should not trust the pigs during a revolution.
- The lyrics of the song ″Arthur's Farm″ from the Half Man Half Biscuit album Back Again in the DHSS tell the story of Douglas Bader and Arthur Askey visiting Animal Farm. The song features the line ′Four legs good, but no legs best′ in apparent tribute to the two famous amputees.
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