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Kids on Pink Floyd album sue for royalties
Last Updated Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:34:46 EST
LONDON - A group of former schoolchildren who made the line "We don't need no education" famous may soon have some extra pocket money.
That's because the one-time students, now thirtysomething adults, are suing to recover royalties they are owed for working on the Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.
'The Wall' was produced by Canada's Bob Ezrin. (CP photo)
Taken from the 1979 album The Wall, the song is instantly recognizable for the lines "We don't need no education/We don't need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers leave them kids alone."
The Wall was produced by Canada's Bob Ezrin, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at this year's Juno ceremony.
The 23 ex-pupils, who were teenagers at the time the song was recorded, are not suing the band; instead, they are taking advantage of a royalty fund established by a new copyright law in 1997.
Broadcasters pay into the fund, and under the legislation the children qualify as session musicians. They stand to gain the equivalent of a few hundred dollars each.
Their claim has been hard to establish because the recording session was done in secret. The song's lyrics were considered scandalous at the time.
At the band's request, music teacher Alun Renshaw took the children, then students at Islington Green School, to a nearby studio without the permission of the school's headmistress.
"I viewed it as an interesting sociological thing and also a wonderful opportunity for the kids to work in a live recording studio," Renshaw, who now lives in Australia, told Britain's Evening Standard newspaper.
The headmistress later banned the children from appearing on Top of the Pops to sing the song. They were also not allowed to appear in the song's video.
The Wall shot to the top of the charts, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies.
Kids on Pink Floyd album sue for royalties
Last Updated Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:34:46 EST
LONDON - A group of former schoolchildren who made the line "We don't need no education" famous may soon have some extra pocket money.
That's because the one-time students, now thirtysomething adults, are suing to recover royalties they are owed for working on the Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.
'The Wall' was produced by Canada's Bob Ezrin. (CP photo)
Taken from the 1979 album The Wall, the song is instantly recognizable for the lines "We don't need no education/We don't need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers leave them kids alone."
The Wall was produced by Canada's Bob Ezrin, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at this year's Juno ceremony.
The 23 ex-pupils, who were teenagers at the time the song was recorded, are not suing the band; instead, they are taking advantage of a royalty fund established by a new copyright law in 1997.
Broadcasters pay into the fund, and under the legislation the children qualify as session musicians. They stand to gain the equivalent of a few hundred dollars each.
Their claim has been hard to establish because the recording session was done in secret. The song's lyrics were considered scandalous at the time.
At the band's request, music teacher Alun Renshaw took the children, then students at Islington Green School, to a nearby studio without the permission of the school's headmistress.
"I viewed it as an interesting sociological thing and also a wonderful opportunity for the kids to work in a live recording studio," Renshaw, who now lives in Australia, told Britain's Evening Standard newspaper.
The headmistress later banned the children from appearing on Top of the Pops to sing the song. They were also not allowed to appear in the song's video.
The Wall shot to the top of the charts, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies.