A house in Highgate, north London, where founder members of the band Pink Floyd lived has been bought, unseen, in an auction yesterday by a Singaporean developer who also bought the house next door. Shivan Iswaran paid £1.2million for each house.

The house was owned by landlord Mike Leonard, who sadly passed away earlier this year. Leonard was a lighting technician, and for a while worked with the band, inspiring one of names they plied their trade under - Leonard's Lodgers. During the band's time at the house, the BBC's TV show Tomorrow's World filmed Leonard working on some of his lighting designs, whilst the band jammed in the background:

Iswaran - not a fan of the band - said that she had a friend who was a Floyd fan who may be interested in the odd item of memorabilia. "I'll maybe put some of the stuff on eBay," she said. Christopher Coleman Smith, of Savills Auctions, said a "piece of rock and roll history" had been bought.