“I got it on a mad whim really,” Gilmour says on Pink Floyd's YouTube channel. “Eventually the idea came that we could make a recording studio out of it. When you've spent your life in ...

The Pink Floyd co-frontman would then repurpose the vessel into a floating recording studio. The Astoria was built in 1911 for the famous comedic performer Fred Karno. It was then moored at Taggs ...