<P> May was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for "services to the music industry and for charity work". May was awarded a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007 and was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013 . He was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission . He is also a co-founder of the awareness campaign, Asteroid Day . Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named after him . May is also an animal rights activist, campaigning against the hunting of foxes and the culling of badgers in the UK . </P> <P> Brian Harold May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London on 19 July 1947, and attended the local Hampton Grammar School, then a voluntary aided school (now independent and known as Hampton School). He is of English and Scottish descent, with his mother being Scots . During this time, he formed his first band, named 1984 after George Orwell's novel of the same name, with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell . </P> <P> At Hampton Grammar School, he attained ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three GCE Advanced Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics . He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1968 with honours . In 2007, May was awarded a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London for work started in 1971 and completed in 2007 . </P> <P> May formed the band Smile in 1968 . The group included Tim Staffell as the lead singer and bassist, and later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also went on to play for Queen . The band lasted for only two years, from 1968 to 1970, as Staffell departed in 1970, leaving the band with a catalogue of nine songs . Smile would reunite for several songs on 22 December 1992 . Taylor's band The Cross were headliners, and he brought May and Staffell on to play "Earth" and "If I Were a Carpenter". May also performed several other songs that night . </P>

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