Ex Pink Floyd bassist and singer Roger Waters was very straightforward in giving a negative response to Facebook for using “Another Brick in the Wall” for an Instagram ad. During a forum in support of Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ number 1, Waters read out an email received from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to use the song. The letter allegedly said that Facebook “feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and so necessary today, which speaks to how timeless the work is”.

“It’s a request for the rights to use my song, “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” in the making of a film to promote Instagram,” Waters explained. “So it’s a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, arrived this morning, with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is – fuck you! No fucking way! And I only mention that because it’s the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything.”

“So those of us who do have any power,” he continued, “and I do have a little bit – in terms of control of the publishing of my songs I do anyway. So I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg.” Waters also defined Facebook CEO as “one of the most powerful idiots in the world” and added “how did this little prick, who started off by saying, “She is pretty, we’ll give her a 4 out of 5,” “She’s ugly, we’ll give her a 1” – how the fuck did he get any power in anything?”

“¡Vete a la chingada!”: @rogerwaters a Mark Zuckerberg. El músico contó que le ofrecieron “una gran cantidad de dinero” por permitir el uso de Another brick in the wall II para promover Instagram. Lo narró en un acto por la libertad de Julian Assange (@Wikileaks)#VideosLaJornada pic.twitter.com/gEVqaor8Eo

— La Jornada (@lajornadaonline) June 12, 2021

Waters was also recently involved in a dispute with his ex-band member David Gilmour. Indeed, the argument was over the reissue of their 1977 masterpiece album “Animals”, in particular its liner notes. He claimed that Gilmour wanted the liner notes to be kept secret so that he could allegedly “claim more credit…than is his due”.