“One of my kids comes up to me years later and showed me a picture of me – I think at a Knebworth concert – with a great big joint in my hand”: How David Gilmour was caught out over his claim he never smoked

Paul McCartney and David Gilmout at Knebworth, 1976.

David Gilmour has debunked one of the many myths that have grown up around Pink Floyd over the years.

In an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Gilmour told the host about the title track of Wish You Were Here. It opens, you may recall, with the sound of an analogue radio, some static and someone coughing. The urban legend is that it’s Gilmour who is doing the coughing and hearing it back convinced him to quit smoking. Not so, says the veteran guitarist.