Īlun Renshaw, head of music at the school, was enthusiastic, and said later: "I wanted to make music relevant to the kids – not just sitting around listening to Tchaikovsky. The school allotted only 40 minutes for the recording. Griffiths was instructed to record only two or three children inspired by a Todd Rundgren album featuring an audience in each stereo channel, he suggested recording an entire school choir. He also had engineer Nick Griffiths record children singing the verse at Islington Green School, close to Pink Floyd's studio. While the band members were away, Ezrin edited the takes into an extended version. The band resisted, saying they did not release singles Waters told him: "Go ahead and waste your time doing silly stuff." When Ezrin heard the song with a disco beat, he was convinced it could become a hit, but felt it needed to be longer, with two verses and two choruses. Despite his reservations about Ezrin's additions, Gilmour felt the final song still sounded like Pink Floyd. Gilmour recorded his guitar solo using a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top guitar with P-90 pick-ups. said to me, "Go to a couple of clubs and listen to what's happening with disco music," so I forced myself out and listened to loud, four-to-the-bar bass drums and stuff and thought, Gawd, awful! Then we went back and tried to turn one of the parts into one of those so it would be catchy. Recording Īt the suggestion of producer Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements of disco, which was popular at the time. In the "Part 2" sequence, children enter a school and march in unison through a meat grinder, becoming "putty-faced" clones, before rioting and burning down the school.
"Another Brick in the Wall" appears in the film based on the album. Following a violent breakdown in "Part 3", Pink dismisses everyone he knows as "just bricks in the wall." īassist Roger Waters wrote "Part 2" as a protest against rigid schooling, particularly boarding schools. In "Part 2", traumas involving his overprotective mother and abusive schoolteachers become bricks in the wall.
During "Part 1", the protagonist, Pink, begins building a metaphorical wall around himself following the death of his father. They are essentially one verse each, although Part 2 sees its own verse sung twice: once by Floyd members, and the second time by the guest choir along with Waters and Gilmour. The three parts of "Another Brick in the Wall" appear on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera album The Wall. It was nominated for a Grammy Award and was ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone 's list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It sold over four million copies worldwide and topped singles charts in fourteen countries, including in the UK and United States.
"Part 2" was released as a single, Pink Floyd's first in the UK since " Point Me at the Sky" (1968). At the suggestion of producer Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements of disco. "Part 2", a protest song against corporal punishment, and rigid and abusive schooling, features a children's choir. " Another Brick in the Wall" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera The Wall, written by bassist Roger Waters. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" on YouTube 5:43 (album version combined with " The Happiest Days of Our Lives", alternative radio edit).3:54 ( A Collection of Great Dance Songs version).
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