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'

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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'
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'...this is an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. I will not be a party to this bull---t,'

Roger Waters, a founding member of the classic rock band Pink Floyd, said Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg offered him a lot of money to use the band's 1979 classic "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" in an Instagram advertisement and he refused,"It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money," Waters said at a recent pro-Julian Assange event. "And the answer is, 'F—k you. No f—in' way.

previously reported that the band refused to allow their music to be used for any advertisements that weren't for a "good cause."The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer read from the letter during the event: "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 said.

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