Single:
Another Brick in the Wall entered the Australian singles chart* on 4 February 1980 and peaked at #2. The song was #15 on the Top 100 of 1980.
Album:
The song is on The Wall which entered the Australian albums chart* on 17 December 1979. It reached #1 on 3 March 1980 and remained there for 4 weeks.
Songwriter:
Roger Waters
Producers:
Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
The single: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II
Full version: Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall, Parts 1,2 & 3
Live version from The Pulse, filmed live on 20 October 1994 at Earls Court, London
Wikipedia:
Another Brick in the Wall is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd’s 1979 rock opera The Wall, written by bassist Roger Waters.
During Part 1, the protagonist, Pink, begins building a metaphorical wall around himself following the death of his father.
Part 2, a protest song against corporal punishment, and rigid and abusive schooling, features a children’s choir. Traumas involving his overprotective mother and abusive schoolteachers become bricks in the wall.
Following a violent breakdown in Part 3, Pink dismisses everyone he knows as “just bricks in the wall”.
Part 2 was released as a single, selling more than four million copies worldwide.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Brick_in_the_Wall
Lyrics:
We don′t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
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