David Gilmour on the end of Pink Floyd

In an interview with CNN, David Gilmour admitted that Pink Floyd's upcoming album "The Endless River" would be the group's last

"This is the end of the Pink Floyd recording career I think you could say fairly safely."

Sitting down ahead of the release of the album, Gilmour told correspondent Max Foster that many of the recordings – which are largely ambient and instrumental – have their roots in the sessions for the band's 1994 album "The Division Bell"

"At the bed of everything there is a piece of old music and we have added to it and subtracted from it where we can."

Pre-sales for the album have surpassed those for One Direction's latest album on Amazon, which Gilmour attributes to music fans looking for something less 'robotic'.

"Maybe they [music fans] are looking for something that they are not getting…Something that is not made quite so robotically. Is that fair? I don't know.

There are an awful lot of young people who are searching back through the older music for some sort of slice of something real or more original

I think modern music to me - God I am going to sound like a grumpy old man - now is very formulaic."