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Another Brick In The Wall (Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone)

Posted by Zand-Bon on Jul 30th, 2010 and filed under INTERNATIONAL NEWS FOCUS, News, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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Pink Floyd’s anthem “Another Brick in the Wall” has become a hit for Iran’s resistance movement

By Peter Hutchison

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July 30, 2010

The 1979 song, which was released in the same year as the Islamic Revolution, has been reworked by two exiled Iranian brothers.

Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd, gave the rights to Blurred Vision, a duo living in Canada, to remake the classic under the title Another Brick in the Wall (Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone).

The video, which features images of Ayatollah Khamenei and footage of street violence following Iran’s disputed elections last year, has become a YouTube sensation, attracting more than 100,000 hits.

It has been made by Sepp, 28, and Sohl, 35, who do not reveal their surname for fear of putting the lives of family members in Iran at danger.

The brothers hope that the song’s “anti-authoritarian message” will highlight to the world the suffering of many people in Iran.

The song is available for download on with proceeds going to .

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