 Munro's brief was to make something "city orientated" and he chose King Kong because of his association with New York City and "for my own petty reasons".The statue was displayed in Manzoni Gardens (now the site of the Bullring shopping mall).On 14 July 1972 it was "occupied" by two flying pickets, who were protesting about low wages in the building industry as art of the national builders' strike.