David Gilmour says he once was offered an opportunity to fly to space, but he declined.
Answering questions from his fans in The Guardian, he says, “We’d played in Moscow — back when one wasn’t ashamed to — and they asked me if I wanted to go up into space.
“But I had seen their rockets and their capsules in the space museum in Moscow, and I nearly [crapped] myself and said, ‘No, thank you.’ They were rickety and held together with nuts and bolts.”
In the same interview, Gilmour talked about something many people don’t know about him — he’s a carpenter. “I’ve always loved carpentry. I’ve made things out of wood pretty much my whole life, from boot removers to tables, to tree houses, to boathouses. The insurance chaps are not overly keen on me doing that in case I chop my fingers off.”
Gilmour finished a six-night stand in Rome last Thursday. He now takes his 21-date Luck and Strange tour to London for six nights at the Royal Albert Hall starting on Tuesday.
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