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Queen Guitarist Turns Hand To Astrophysics

6:28AM Busty St Clair | Thirty years after dropping out of college to form Queen, Brian May is completing his doctorate in astrophysics. May is due to submit his thesis — Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud — to supervisors at Imperial College London within the next two weeks. Jebus Christ. Does that not sound like the drug and alcohol affected ramblings of [insert Woodstock-era muso here]? In actually sounds like a lyric from a Wolfmother sing. Or even like something Phil Jameison might have dreamed up during his best* years. Who’d have thought… all this time we assumed magical mashrooms and super strength weed were the blame for giving us the most bizzarre song names in the histry of music — now it turns out that perhaps science was to blame. May was an astrophysics student at Imperial College in 1970 when he joined Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor to form Queen. He says his interest in the stars is perfectly compatible with his musical pursuits. “I enjoy having different facets to my life,” he said. But not, we assume, different hairstyles. *quite clearly not his best years. More »