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Sure, you may remember Brian May as lead guitarist for the historic rock group Queen, but did you also know he is an Astrophysicist, having received his doctorate from Imperial College London? He has now been appointed chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University!




LONDON - Brian May, rock star and astrophysicist, has been appointed chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

May will be installed as the university's figurehead leader early next year, it was announced Monday. The 60-year-old Queen guitarist said the appointment was "a great honor and a great new challenge."

He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, which has a well-known astrophysics research institute.

"Brian May is an intensely talented individual who achieved global success with Queen," said the university's vice chancellor, Michael Brown, in a statement. "In this age of celebrity culture, it is rare to find someone who has fame, fortune and universal acclaim and yet who remains true to his core values of learning and enlightenment."

May succeeds Cherie Booth, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Liverpool John Moores University was formed in 1992 from the former Liverpool Polytechnic.

May completed his doctorate in astrophysics earlier this year. He was awarded his qualification by Imperial College London.

He was an astrophysics student at Imperial College when he joined Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor to form Queen in 1970, but dropped his doctorate as the glam rock band became more successful.

May is the co-author of "Bang! The Complete History of the Universe," which was published last year.

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On the Net:

Brian May:

http://www.brianmay.com/

Liverpool John Moores University:

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/

Being a rock star doesn't necessarly mean being unintelligent.

Gene Simmons of KISS, has a Bachelors Degree in Education from Sullivan County College, and reportedly speaks five languages fluently; Hebrew, Hungarian, Spanish, German and English.

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, graduated from Harvard near the top of his class.

Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar

Tom Morello has a political science degree from Harvard

Art Garfunkel has both a BA in Art History and an Master's degree in Mathematics from Columbia University.

Bono has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time.

Sting, of Police fame, was a teacher at St. Paul's First School in Cramlington before becoming famous, and has since formed numerous charities and activist organizations for various causes.

Of course there are many, others.

I was going to say next is, "the queen wishes to confer knighthood on "Sir Brian May" (to the tune of Flash Gordon/Queen). lol

When I was a teenager Queen was my absolute favorite rock band. I knew the various band members were well educated but had no idea how well educated Brian May was. THANK YOU for posting this info, I couldn't be more happy to hear this GREAT NEWS! Later...

Weeeeee will weeeee will GRADE YOU....
Weeeeee will weeeee will GRADE YOU......

(cringe) ohh nooooo not a "C" aiieeeeeeeee!

we could rock more people. Later...