Thursday, March 27, 2008

Brilliant Rockers for Real


Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave - graduated in Political Science from Harvard University

Brian May of Queen - Doctorate in Astronomy.

David Farrell of Linkin Park - degree from UCLA

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground - degree in English from Syracuse University

Scott Stapp of Creed - degree from University of Notre Dame

Art Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel - Masters degree in Mathematics

Tracy Chapman - degree from Tufts University

Greg Graffin - Bad Religion
Double majored in anthropology and geology at UCLA before getting a masters there in geology. He went on to receive a PhD in zoology from Cornell for his dissertation, "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology." He currently teaches life sciences at UCLA.

Lisa Loeb
Graduated from the Providence institution in 1990 with a degree in comparative literature.

Alicia Keys
Graduated from the Professional Performing Arts School as the Valedictorian and was offered a scholarship to Columbia.

Peter Yarrow - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Undergraduate psychology major at Cornell.

Huey Lewis
Huey studied engineering at Cornell before dropping out his junior year.

Davey Havok and Jade Puget - AFI
Met while they were students at the University of California at Berkeley.

Nick Drake
Drake studied English literature at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge.

Colin Greenwood - Radiohead
Greenwood was born and raised in the academic mecca that is Oxford, England (he still lives there today with most of the other members of Radiohead), but he decided to go to rival Cambridge University for his studies. Greenwood studied English and focused on modern American authors.

1 comment:

The Tuckenator said...

Amazing list! I know the guys from RUSH are often very political and brilliant in their songs. Wonder what their background is. Where'd you find all that stuff? Awesome information!