Two artists I grew up with were educated punk rockers. Greg Graffin (lead of Bad Religion) has a PhD in Zoology from Cornell. Brian Dexter Holland (lead of th

Two artists I grew up with were educated punk rockers. Greg Graffin (lead of Bad Religion) has a PhD in Zoology from Cornell. Brian Dexter Holland (lead of the Offspring) just went back to finish his PhD in Molecular Biology from USC. (Like May, he left his academic pursuits when the band got big).