| Hello Pig | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Levellers |
| Cover: | Hello Pig.jpg |
| Released: | 4 September 2000 |
| Genre: | Rock, alternative rock |
| Label: | China |
| Producer: | Mark Wallis |
| Prev Title: | One Way of Life |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Green Blade Rising |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Hello Pig is the sixth studio album by the Levellers, released in 2000 on China Records. The album was the first by the band to feature Matt Savage.
The song "61 Minutes of Pleading" is based on the death of Loraine Whiting, who bled to death over the course of an hour while on the phone to a 999 police call handler after being shot by her husband, who had then shot himself dead and lay next to her.[1] Emergency services personnel outside the property considered it too dangerous to enter, following a recent similar incident in which a gunman had forced his injured hostage to claim he was dead in order to lure emergency crews in, before shooting dead two ambulance crew members and a police officer.[2]
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