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Another Brick in the Wall

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Also known as we don't need no education, if you don't take your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't take your meat?, all in all it was all just bricks in the wall

1979 song by Pink Floyd

Key facts

Published
Pink Floyd Music Publishers
Released
30 November 1979
Recorded
April–November 1979
Genre
Art rock hard rock progressive rock
Length
8 : 28 (All three parts) 3:11 (Part 1) 3:59 (Part 2) 1:18 (Part 3)
Label
Harvest (UK) Columbia (US)
Songwriter
Roger Waters
Producers
Bob Ezrin David Gilmour James Guthrie Roger Waters

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Wikidata facts

Part of
The Wall
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Composer
Roger Waters
Duration
78
Performer
Korn
Lyrics by
Roger Waters
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publication date
1979-00-00
language of work or name
English language
title
Another Brick in the Wall
form of creative work
song
number of parts of this work
3
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Encyclopedic overview

Music video "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" on YouTube

"Another Brick in the Wall" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's eleventh studio album The Wall (1979), written by the bassist, Roger Waters. "Part 2", a protest song against corporal punishment in schools and rigid and abusive schooling, features a children's choir. At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd incorporated elements of disco.

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