In a headline that seems to have been spat out of a random word generator, Elon Musk and Brian May will be sharing a stage at the forthcoming STARMUS festival.
STARMUS —the world-renowned science and music festival— will celebrate the half-century milestone of the moon landing this year with the theme ’50 Years of Moon Landing.’ The festival is set to honour the most influential names from the words of art, science and music.
The festival is set to award producer Brian Eno, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and Apollo 11 director Todd Douglas Miller with the highly-coveted Stephen Hawking Medal. These awards are the first to be bestowed since the passing of Hawking.
STARMUS co-founder and Queen guitarist Brian May is set to present the award to Musk, who has been heralded by Richard Dawkins as a “hero for our times.”
“This year we will be presenting the Hawking Medal to three new luminaries. Firstly, I personally – I hope – will be presenting to Elon Musk, the author of the private side of Space Enterprise at the moment, taking us exploring further and further into the universe,” shared Brian May in a video.
“I will be also standing beside someone who will be presenting to Brian Eno, a great colleague of mine and as always, an explorer on the realms of the boundaries between music and science. A great recipient of the Hawking Medal.
“And we will be presenting also to the amazing Apollo 11 film, which celebrates the very same thing which we are celebrating here: 50 years since the ‘Apollo 11’ Moon landing, one of mankind’s greatest achievements of all time. Starmus V is on! I will be there; be there, enjoy.”
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Check out Brian May’s Stephen Hawking Medal message below.
Yesterday it was revealed that Queen are yet to see a cent from their record-breaking biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. In a recent interview with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Brian May revealed that the band are yet to see any money from the project.
