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“Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” is Pink Floyd’s only number one hit in both the US and the UK, and was a chart-topper in at least six other countries overseas in the spring of 1980.
“Part 1” had come two tracks earlier, and even the immediately preceding song, “The Happiest Days of Our Lives” wa...
[Intro]
[Verse 1: Roger Waters & David Gilmour]
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
[Chorus: Roger Waters & David Gilmour]
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
[Verse 2: Islington Green School Students]
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
[Chorus: Islington Green School Students]
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro: Roger Waters]
Wrong, do it again! (*Children playing*)
Wrong, do it again!
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
(Wrong, do it again!)
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
(Wrong, do it again!)
You! Yes! You behind the bike sheds! Stand still, laddie!
(If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?)
(You! Yes! You behind the bike sheds! Stand still, laddie!)
*Children playing*
*Phone beeping sound*
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 was written by Roger Waters.
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 was produced by Roger Waters & James Guthrie & David Gilmour & Bob Ezrin.
Pink Floyd released Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 on Fri Nov 23 1979.
Per Roger Waters – about his own teachers –
The school I was at — they were really like that. [All] they had to offer was their own bitterness and cynicism.
In an interview with Guitar World, Roger Waters comments:
We were at Producers Workshop at the time. I remember sending the multi-track tape to Nick Griffiths in London and asking him to copy the backing track, record the kids, stick it all together and send it back to us. We just had one conversat...
Yes. In 2021. And here is the response Roger Waters gave him: