Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters turns down Facebook’s offer of a ‘huge, huge amount of money’ to use a song, calls Zuckerberg ‘one of the most powerful idiots in the world’

• Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd, mentioned Facebook requested to use a track for an Instagram advert.

• Waters mentioned he was supplied a lot of cash for use of the track “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.”

• “The answer is, ‘F–k You. No f–in’ way,'” he mentioned, Rolling Stone reported.

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Roger Waters, a founding member of the basic rock band Pink Floyd, mentioned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg supplied him a lot of cash to use the band’s 1979 basic “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” in an Instagram commercial and he refused, Rolling Stone reported.

“It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money,” Waters mentioned at a latest pro-Julian Assange occasion. “And the answer is, ‘F–k you. No f–in’ way.'”

He added: “I only mention that because this is an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. I will not be a party to this bull—t, [Mark] Zuckerberg.”

Far Out Magazine beforehand reported that the band refused to enable their music to be used for any commercials that weren’t for a “good cause.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer learn from the letter throughout the occasion: “We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and so necessary today, which speaks to how timeless the work is,” the request mentioned.

Waters mentioned the firm wished to “make Facebook and Instagram extra powerful than it already is…in order that it could possibly proceed to censor all of us in this room and stop this story about Julian Assange getting out into the basic public so the basic public can go, ‘What? No. No More.'”

He also took a jab at Zuckerberg by referencing FaceMash, an app created before Facebook to rate the appearance of women at Harvard, where Zuckerberg went to school.

“How did this little p—k who started out as ‘she’s fairly, we’ll give her a 4 out of 5, she’s ugly, we’ll give her a 4 out of 5,’ how did we give him any energy?” requested Waters. “And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.”

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