![]() Thus, young people are responding to the song with uncommon - and unsettling - enthusiasm. While the song is not the first example of the antieducation theme in popular music, it comes at a time when increasing numbers of students are questioning the value of their education. “”Another Brick in the Wall,”” sung as an eerie chant by a children’s chorus that backs up the band, is the centerpiece of a gloomy concept album, “”The Wall,”” in which Pink Floyd lyricist Roger Waters charges that Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual. Yet the song has become the world’s most popular rock record of 1980.
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