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The children who sang on The Wall were not offered any money for their services, and now they want to be paid.
Agent Says Kids From 'Wall' Owed Royalties
Fri Nov 26, 2:31 PM ET Entertainment - AP
LONDON - Members of the children's chorus who sang on Pink Floyd's anti-authoritarian 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall" are owed thousands in payment, a royalties agent said Friday.
Peter Rowan said he was representing one of the group, Peter Thorpe, in a bid for unpaid royalties. Rowan said he hoped other members of the group would join the claim for royalties from a fund set up to compensate session musicians.
Two dozen students from Islington Green School in north London sang on the chart-topping track from the album "The Wall," which was recorded at a nearby studio in 1979.
The song attracted controversy for the chorus sung by the children: "We don't need no education/We don't need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers, leave them kids alone." "It was seen as being quite improper, and I think it was raised in Parliament that children should have been used for this," said the school's current head teacher, Trevor Averre-Beeson.
"The Wall" has sold more than 23 million copies and is the third best-selling album of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites). The school received a platinum disc and 1,000 pounds in return for the children's efforts, but the pupils were not paid. Rowan said the singers could claim money from a fund established in 1997 to give session musicians a percentage of royalties from broadcasts. "It's a legal right and the money is building up," Rowan said. "There's probably around 5,000 or 6,000 pounds there already, so they would get a few hundred each."
The children who sang on The Wall were not offered any money for their services, and now they want to be paid.
Agent Says Kids From 'Wall' Owed Royalties
Fri Nov 26, 2:31 PM ET Entertainment - AP
LONDON - Members of the children's chorus who sang on Pink Floyd's anti-authoritarian 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall" are owed thousands in payment, a royalties agent said Friday.
Peter Rowan said he was representing one of the group, Peter Thorpe, in a bid for unpaid royalties. Rowan said he hoped other members of the group would join the claim for royalties from a fund set up to compensate session musicians.
Two dozen students from Islington Green School in north London sang on the chart-topping track from the album "The Wall," which was recorded at a nearby studio in 1979.
The song attracted controversy for the chorus sung by the children: "We don't need no education/We don't need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers, leave them kids alone." "It was seen as being quite improper, and I think it was raised in Parliament that children should have been used for this," said the school's current head teacher, Trevor Averre-Beeson.
"The Wall" has sold more than 23 million copies and is the third best-selling album of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites). The school received a platinum disc and 1,000 pounds in return for the children's efforts, but the pupils were not paid. Rowan said the singers could claim money from a fund established in 1997 to give session musicians a percentage of royalties from broadcasts. "It's a legal right and the money is building up," Rowan said. "There's probably around 5,000 or 6,000 pounds there already, so they would get a few hundred each."
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Date: 2004-11-27 05:02 am (UTC)From:and, get over it man. what was, was.
i think folks should be credited,
but there's a time to deal with it
and a time to let it go.
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Date: 2004-11-27 05:16 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-11-27 12:59 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-11-27 04:46 pm (UTC)From:Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
I'm sure the irony was lost on them.
Earlier this year, Clare Torry, the woman who did the vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky," asked for songwriter credit for it. She said that she was not given direction on what to sing, and that her vocals were a great part of what made the song what it is. I think she's right, but that more than thirty years later is too late. She's dropped her case.