Loading ...Perhaps in celebration of guitarist Brian May finally publishing his doctoral thesis after all these years, Queen + Paul Rodgers–the Bad Company-vocalist-augmented version of the classic pomp-rock outfit–have decided to call their forthcoming album The Cosmos Rocks. (Sadly, there’s no exclamation point in the title.) Looking at this sketch of May’s thesis makes me wonder if the album, which comes out next month, is going to draw on inspiration close to home:
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Wed Jul 25 2007 by Maura
Guitarist Brian May will submit his doctoral thesis, “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud,” to the astrophysics department at Imperial College London within the next two weeks–more than 30 years after he abandoned his degreee to form Queen. More »
Brian May’s Crankiness To Reach Astronomical Levels
Wed Mar 7 2007 by Maura
We’ve talked about Queen guitarist Brian May’s penchant for one-sided flame wars before; the frizzy-haired fretman has used his online pulpit to take on MySpace imposters and music critics he disagrees with. More »
Brian May: He Will, He Will Mock You (Again)
Thu Feb 8 2007 by Brian Raftery
Former Queen guitarist Brian May loves his cranky Internet missives: Last fall, he lashed out at people impersonating him at MySpace, and he regularly updates the “Soapbox” section of his site with rants, raves, and weird caricatures of Freddie Mercury. For the last few days, though, he’s been even pissier than usual, directing several of his tirades against the music media.
