On this day 35 years ago, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” was America’s number-one single.

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On this day 35 years ago, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” was America’s number-one single.
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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