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Summer
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 Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: Queen's Brian May completes 30 year old Doctoral Thesis |
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And it's on interplanetary dust clouds.
Brian May, Queen legend, hands in star thesis
| Quote: | Queen guitarist Brian May finally handed in his completed Astrophysics thesis today - 36 years after he began writing the complex academic paper.
Queen guitarist Brian May has finally finished his thesis - 36 years after starting.
Brian May poses with his wife after receiving an honorary doctorate.
In 1974, when Queen was but a princess in its infancy, May chose to abandon his doctorate studies to focus on the band in their quest to conquer the world.
But last year, the curly haired rock star decided to fish out his unfinished work on interplanetary dust clouds.
The 48,000-word tome, Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, which sounds suspiciously like a Spinal Tap LP, was stored in the loft of his home in Surrey.
The 60-year-old guitar pioneer dedicated nine months to further research at Imperial College in London, the university where he originally studied in his late twenties. He also carried out observational work in La Palma, Tenerife.
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Today he handed in the thesis at Imperial, and said he was looking forward to his oral viva, where he will be called before a specialist body to present his findings.
"It feels very exciting," said the rock virtuoso and composer of lingering gems such as We Will Rock You and I Want It All.
"I will have two experts in the field who will now grill me and probably give me hell.
"But I have a philosophical view of things, a stoical view of life, that it will be what it will be. I've done the work and I'm proud of the work.
"I've been used to getting my own way but with this I had to buckle down and be a student and do what I was told. I did a lot of scratching my head. |
Click the link at top for the whole story. Kudos to Brian!
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Okay, in celebration, let's all sing Don't Stop Me Now!
Tonight Im gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world turning inside out yeah!
And floating around in ecstasy
So dont stop me now dont stop me
cause Im having a good time having a good time
Im a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
Im a racing car passing by like lady godiva
Im gonna go go go
Theres no stopping me
Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Dont stop me now Im having such a good time
Im having a ball dont stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Dont stop me now (cause Im havin a good time)
Dont stop me now (yes Im havin a good time)
I dont want to stop at all
Im a rocket ship on my way to mars
On a collision course
I am a satellite Im out of control
I am a sex machine ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh oh oh oh oh explode
Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you
Dont stop me dont stop me
Dont stop me hey hey hey!
Dont stop me dont stop me ooh ooh ooh (I like it)
Dont stop me dont stop me
Have a good time good time
Dont stop me dont stop me ah
Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Dont stop me now Im having such a good time
Im having a ball dont stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Dont stop me now (cause Im havin a good time)
Dont stop me now (yes Im havin a good time)
I dont want to stop at all
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