“We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.”
It’s hard to believe that twenty-five years ago, twenty-three 13- to 14-year-old pupils from the Islington Green School were secretly pulled out of their classes and taken to the Britannia Row Recording Studios in Islington, north London after their teacher was approached by the band’s management to recruit music students to sing those now famous lines. The album (The Wall) that this song first appeared on has sold an estimated 12 million copies.
Now, they want a piece of the gold.
According to this article, a royalties agent has filed for royalties on behalf of these children now adults to take advantage of the Copyright Act 199
7 (UK) to claim a percentage of the money from broadcasts of the song.
Interesting can of worms opened.
