Brian May, of the legendary British glam rock band Queen, is obsessed with stars. Not the kind that accompany his band on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — but the much larger, more naturally beautiful kind.
Best known as Queen's lead guitar player, May wrote "We Will Rock You," sang the bass parts on "Bohemian Rhapsody" and played that guitar solo on "We Are the Champions" — all hits people are still dancing to today. That success begins to seem very small, however, when you contextualize it in the history of the universe — something May is prone to do lately.
Just as his band was starting to make some noise 35 years ago, May was studying astrophysics. Though he put off his studies to live the life of a rock god, he maintained his interest in the mysteries of the universe. Just last year, he completed a dissertation on interplanetary dust, earning a doctorate from Imperial College in London.
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