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Prison choir on David Gilmour song

The 2011 arrest of David Gilmour's son on charges related to a tuition increase protest has turned out to be a great thing for some of his fellow inmates.  Charlie Gilmour was 21 when he was apprehended after scaling a war memorial statue during street protests over a tuition hike at his college.  He eventually served some jail time at Wandsworth Prison.  A behind bars choir known as the Liberty Choir exists in that lock-up and somw inmates graduate to the South London Choir after serving their time.  David Gilmour enlisted seven singers that were serving sentences while Charlie was incacerated to sing on the title track to Rattle That Lock, the album he releases September 18.  Commenting on why he decided to give them the opportunity, Gilmour told the BBC, 'We got to see how the system worked, and there's a lot wrong.  There are many initiatives, but this one, with the dual thing of doing it inside prison and on the outside as well, is a different step that we think is very good.'

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