Guitarist and songwriter Brian May is completing his doctorate in astrophysics, more than 30 years after he dropped it to form the rock group Queen.

May said he planned to submit his thesis, Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, to supervisors at Imperial College London within the next two weeks.

“I didn’t want an honorary PhD I wanted the real thing that I worked for.”

This is a great story, and I think it paints a pretty clear picture why people get doctorates. I think it is safe to say that it’s rarely about the money.

The only thing left to know is what his committee thinks of Fat Bottomed Girls?