Another Brick In the Wall, Part 2 - 2019 remix [Live]

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote this song about his views on formal education, which were framed during his time at the Cambridgeshire School for Boys. He hated his grammar school teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than in teaching them. The wall refers to the emotional barrier Waters built around himself because he wasn't in touch with reality. The bricks in the wall are the events in his life that propelled him to build this proverbial wall around himself - his school teacher was just another brick in the wall. Waters told Mojo, December 2009, that the song is meant to be satirical. He explained: "You couldn't find anybody in the world more pro-education than me. But the education I went through in boys' grammar school in the '50s was very controlling and demanded rebellion. The teachers were weak and therefore easy targets. The song is meant to be a rebellion against errant government, against people who have power over you, who are wrong. Then it absolutely demanded that you rebel against that."

The children's chorus that sang on this track came from a school in Islington, England, and was chosen because it was close to the studio. It was made up of 23 kids between the ages of 13 and 15. They were overdubbed 12 times, making it sound like there were a lot more of them. The addition of the choir convinced Waters that the song would come together. He told Rolling Stone: "It suddenly made it sort of great."

Pink Floyd's producer, Bob Ezrin, had the idea for the children's choir. It wasn't the first time he enlisted schoolkids to sing on a rock song: Ezrin used a choir of kids when he produced Alice Cooper's "School's Out" in 1972 - he liked to use children's voices on songs about school. When performing "School's Out" live, Alice Cooper often transitions it into the chorus of "Another Brick In The Wall," a nod to Ezrin's work on both tracks.