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. īassist Roger Waters wrote 'Part 2' as a protest against rigid schooling, particularly boarding schools. Following a violent breakdown in 'Part 3', Pink dismisses everyone he knows as 'just bricks in the wall'. 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.

The three parts of 'Another Brick in the Wall' appear on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera album The Wall. '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).It was nominated for a Grammy Award and was number 384 on Rolling Stone 's list of ' The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time'. It sold over four million copies worldwide. '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 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. For the opera, see Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera.

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