Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request

Grouchy former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist Roger Waters launched an expletive-laden attack on human-impersonating Facebook CEObot Mark Zuckerberg after receiving a request from Instagram to use one of his songs in a promotional film.

Speaking at an event in New York to advocate for the release of Julian Assange, Waters held up a printed piece of paper he said he received "on the internet this morning", which included a request to use the Pink Floyd song 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' in exchange for what Waters described as "a huge, huge amount of money."

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, and I do have a little bit – in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs I do, anyway – so I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg.

Waters, who was a founding member of Pink Floyd in 1965, alongside Syd Barrett, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and Bob Klose, has become a staunch if somewhat scattershot activist in recent years.

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