I didn't forget rockstar I just couldn't work out a way of putting it elegantly into the sentence. Well actually I was trying to fit "musician" in there since we don't know that he was a rockstar. I mean, I totally hope that he WAS a rockstar superscientist back in the day, like if Bruce Springsteen suddenly announced he'd created the first cloned human being or something, but I figured...probably he was just a superscientist who liked playing guitar. :(

And I would pay good money to see this show in musical format.

AS WOULD ALL RIGHT-THINKING PEOPLE.