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Grauniad Science podcast has Brian May on the effect of taking a 'gap year' on progress on his PhD - how did that work out for him anyway? And how did he cope with London housing prices coming back to Imperial College to finish up and hand in his PhD thesis on "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud"

The real question, of course, is whether his advisor noticed his absence.

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How to finish grad school without a huge debt:
1) Start your program.
2) Drop out and release multimillion selling albums and tours
3) Come back and finish your thesis.
4) Profit!!!

BTW, does anyone know if any other rock musicians have completed a PhD?
I think Art Garfunkel completed a Masters in Mathematics (but he's not exactly rock).

By T. Bruce McNeely (not verified) on 07 Aug 2007 #permalink

Bruce. I know about Greg Graffin, who is the vocalist of Bad Religion. He got a PhD in zoology from Cornell and now is a lecturer at UCLA.