According to Nick Mason, Griffiths was asked originally just to provide two or three kids singing in “a rather pathetic voice.” Griffiths was a fan of Todd Rundgren, who had, on his double album Todd, recorded a live audience singing one of his song’s choruses in New York, and then taken the tape and overdubbed another whole audience singing the harmony in San Francisco. Griffiths accordingly contacted Alun Renshaw, Head of Music at Islington Green School, who provided the schoolkids. In a 2009 interview with Guitar World, Ezrin explained that, having produced “School’s Out” with Alice Cooper, he “had a thing about kids on record.” It also hit number 1 in South Africa, after which it was banned, on May 6, 1980, when black school children used it to condemn educational apartheid in Soweto.Ĭo-producer Bob Ezrin had suggested “Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2” as a single with a 4/4 beat, but since the song has just one repeated verse, engineer Nick Griffiths, at Pink Floyd’s Britannia Row Studios in London, was asked to find some children to add colour to the second verse. It topped the US singles chart for four weeks from March 22, 1980, and was number 1 in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, and West Germany, reaching the Top 5 in a further eight countries. A week later, it was #1 in the UK, remaining there for five weeks, and by January 1980 had sold over a million copies. “Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2” was an instant hit in the UK, released on November 16, 1979, and selling 340,000 copies in five days. The song received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group, but Floyd lost to Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind.” In 1980, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall, (Part 2)” started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart.
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