Professor and the Madman – тема

Professor and the Madman is a four-piece American rock band featuring co-frontmen/songwriters Alfie Agnew and Sean Elliott, drummer Rat Scabies and bassist Paul Gray. Agnew had been in the punk bands Adolescents and D.I. and Elliott had played guitar in D.I. Scabies and Gray were the rhythm section of The Damned, and they appeared together on a pair of The Damned's studio albums: The Black Album and Strawberries. Gray also played in Eddie and the Hot Rods and UFO.
After playing in punk bands as an adolescent, Agnew left the scene for college at 18, and got out of music in the early '90s while going to graduate school. He is currently a math professor at CSU Fullerton. In 2015, his ex-bandmate, Sean Elliott, got in touch with him about playing music together again. Having reunited, they began collaborating on original music as Professor and the Madman. The band's name is a nod to Agnew's professorial career, while also a reference to the book The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester.