Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Denies Facebook’s Request to Use Song in Ad: ‘F– You’

Waters rejected the idea of “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” being used for an Instagram ad

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters revealed Facebook approached him to use “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” for an Instagram ad and he said, “F— you.”

At a pro-Julian Assange event last week first reported on by Rolling Stone, Waters explained that the letter seeking permission to use the ad had arrived from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that morning and his answer was, “F— you. No f—ing way.” As some members of the crowd laughed and cheered, he also noted that he’d been offered “a huge, huge sum of money” for his permission, but would “not be a party to this bullsh–.”

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