Thursday, October 19, 2006

Music and the stars

From http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19225731.500

"In 1969, Brian May, lead guitarist of the legendary rock band Queen, gave up a career in astrophysics to pursue his dream of becoming an international rock star. Now, almost four decades later, the two strands of his life, music and astronomy, are coming back together. He is currently finishing the PhD he started at Imperial College London back when Queen was just beginning to take off.
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What inspired you to return to your PhD after all these years?

You get to this age and you think, I'm still alive when some friends aren't, and you ask yourself, "Why am I here? What should I be doing?" So there's that."

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