Agent: Pink Floyd's Chorus Owed Royalties (The "We Don't Need No..." Kids)

Khephra

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Sun Nov-28-04 02:00 AM
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Agent: Pink Floyd's Chorus Owed Royalties (The "We Don't Need No..." Kids)

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 of dollars in payment, a royalties agent said.

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 in 1997 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.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-music-pink-floyd,0,13147.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines

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cavanaghjam

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Sun Nov-28-04 02:03 AM
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1. It depends whether

the original contract stipulated royalties; nonetheless, I've always felt that song should have played at the GOP convention.

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rudeboy666

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Sun Nov-28-04 02:25 AM
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2. Punks Not Dead

kill all dinosaurs.......

anarchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Philostopher

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Sun Nov-28-04 03:28 PM
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3. Interesting that they waited so long.

Though I see, from reading the article, there actually was a fund created in 1997 to pay some of the people who didn't get royalties originally. I guess that explains it -- they know there's some mechanism for getting money now, so they're filing now.

Just a little surprised nobody tried this twenty years ago when the album was in the charts. I guess by creating the fund, Pink Floyd (or the record company) acknowledged people's right to ask for money, so now they're 'coming out of the woodwork,' so to say.

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