The cover star of U2 albums Boy, War, The Best of 1980-1990 amongst others was Peter Rowen. He was the brother of Guggi, member of The Virgin Prunes and close friend of Bono. He is now a ironically a photographer with a website www.peterrowen.com

According to Nick Mason, Rog had an idea to have two or three kids singing, but the bemused engineer at Britannia Row who was tasked with actually getting ver kids on tape thought that that sounded a bit rubbish and did a safety version involving loads of them just in case. Guess which one made the (final) cut...?

Well, according to the Q magazine Pink Floyd special (which I've just gone and dug out because I remember reading about it) the story of "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" goes something like this:-
1) Roger's demo is just him and an acoustic guitar (and probably a bit mournful).
2) Producer Bob Ezrin persuades them to record it with a then-fashionable disco beat which they grudgingly do.
3) Ezrin then tries to persuade them to add a second verse & chorus to make it suitable to release as a single - being a band that doesn't do singles, they tell him where to go.
4) Not to be dissuaded, Ezrin makes an extended version anyway and sends one of the engineers to an Islington school and gets him to fill up 24 tracks of tape with kids singing the song.
5) Once he's finished it, Ezrin plays it to Roger Waters who decides it's just what he wanted.
So not entirely Roger's idea then ?

I may be just confusing the two, but didn't the children who appeared in Madness' "Baggy Trousers" video claim payment in later life?
Suggs has said that "Baggy Trousers" was their riposte to the public school educated Floyd's song, since the nutty boys had quite fond memories of their schooldays, and recalled that the teachers and pupils were in the same boat, "trying different ways to make a difference to the days".

You're absolutely right about this. The reason that I hardly ever watch films any more (and struggle like hell to keep up with things like The Wire) but this doesn't apply to music is because I'm always on the move. I listen to music almost singularly in the car or when I'm cooking the kids' tea. I watch television occasionally, and record/own far more than I ever watch. I got the first two series - I refuse to say seasons - of House for Christmas last year, and thoroughly enjoyed the pilot but have made it no further. This is largely, as David Hepworth says, because I am attempting to watch it with my wife. The next step, which I've nearly arrived at, is recording The Wire on Sky +, putting it on DVD, and ripping it to my iTunes library and using my iPod to watch it on a train.

The last album that I listened to without moving was The Beatles' Love. This was because (a) it was a 5.1 mix, so I had to listen to it using a DVD player and a very precise position between the speakers; and (b) because I elected not to go to the cinema with the rest of my family to watch Night At The Museum. And if I'm being honest, I had a bit of a doze while listening.

P.S. - David, please be aware that The Sopranos is being repeated from the beginning on Monday nights on e4. It's better than The West Wing.

I thought that the Baggy Trousers ex-kids got the idea for a bit of cash from the Brick in the Wall ex-kids. I might have imagined it. And I haven't seen the documentary either, so I'll shut up now.

I hate to be the one to break it to Mark Ellen, but Paul McCartney wasn't in the studio with Michael Jackson during the recording of Ebony And Ivory... Do you want me to go on?

I'm saying that Michael "baby dangler" Jackson wasn't in the studio at any time during the recording of Ebony & Ivory either.

I suspect for the same reason as Ben is alluding to above.