bear mccreary wrote the song all along the watchtower.
who wrote the song all along the watchtower?
bear mccreary
"watchtower" is the fifth single by british rapper devlin, and the lead single from his second studio album, "a moving picture" (2013). the song features british singer-songwriter ed sheeran and was produced by labrinth. "watchtower" was released on 16 august 2012 and entered the uk singles chart on 26 august 2012 at number 7, becoming devlin's highest-charting single and first top 10 hit and sheeran's fifth top 10 hit. the song samples the main chorus line from bob dylan's "all along the watchtower". it also borrows jimi hendrix's riff from the guitarist's cover. it was used in the denzel washington and mark wahlberg 2013 action-comedy film, "2 guns". the instrumental was also used as the main theme for the series "the young pope" by paolo sorrentino. it was also used in early promotional trailers for the amazon prime web television series "tom clancy's jack ryan", which was released in 2018.
watchtower (song)
in october 2014, a case was heard in san diego, california about the sexual abuse of jose lopez by gonzalo campos. witness elders were aware that campos had confessed to the abuse of at least one other child in 1982, but in 1986 they recommended campos as an instructor to lopez. campos moved to another congregation in 1987 and became an elder in 1993. campos later confessed to abusing at least eight children between 1982 and 1995, and subsequently fled to mexico. campos was subsequently disfellowshipped in 1995. for failing to protect lopez from a known offender and for its subsequent refusal to co-operate with the court, the watchtower society was ordered to pay us$13.5 million to the plaintiff. the watchtower society appealed the ruling. the appeal court vacated the judgment, granting that lesser sanctions might compel the watchtower society to comply with the court's requirements. while the document discovery dispute was still in progress the case was settled out of court in january 2018. in a separate case involving another victim of gonzalo campos, the watchtower society produced redacted copies of documents related to child sexual abuse in the united states from 1997 until 2001. the watchtower society asserted that it had no access to more recent documents held by the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses, a separate subsidiary of the watchtower society. the court sanctioned watchtower $4,000 for each day that it did not submit the documents. watchtower unsuccessfully appealed against the ruling, and the court of appeals directed watchtower to pay fines (us$48,000 by the time of the appeal) and submit to the court order. the case was settled out of court in february 2018. in 2015, another california trial court defaulted watchtower and ordered it to pay us$4 million to the plaintiff after its failure to produce documents. watchtower subsequently offered to produce documents on a rollout basis and appealed the decision, but lost the appeal. the law firm representing these lawsuits filed similar cases in connecticut, vermont, california, oregon and new mexico.
jehovah's witnesses' handling of child sex abuse