A drummer from a legendary rock band was spotted taking part in a historic car run.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was sat in the passenger seat of his 1901 Panhard Et Levassor for RM Sotheby’s Veteran Car Run today.
The 81-year-old takes part most years.
The event, in its 129th year, sees participants drive from London’s Hyde Park to Madeira Drive in Brighton in a variety of historic motors.
The run has been taking place every year since 1939, with variations of the event beginning in 1897.
The event commemorates the famous Emancipation Run of November 1896, which celebrated the removal of “draconian restrictions” against motor vehicles, including a four mile per hour speed limit and the requirement for someone to walk ahead of a vehicle.
Pink Floyd were formed by Mason, singer Syd Barrett, guitarist and singer Roger Waters, and keyboardist Richard Wright in the mid-1960s, before the group were later joined by singer and guitarist David Gilmour.
The band is best known for the albums Dark Side Of The Moon (1973), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979), as well as songs such as Comfortably Numb, Another Brick In The Wall and Money.
Mason’s bandmate David Gilmour has been trying to sell his seafront home in Hove for several years.
Construction of Medina House was completed in 2020 but the house was put on sale only two years later and is now listed with an asking price of £10 million.
Located on King’s Esplanade in Hove, the custom-built seafront mansion, designed by award-winning architect Keb Gavarito-Bruhn, replaced a former 19th-century bathhouse.
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