Elvis's nutritional consultant ··· Michael Jackson's hair care consultant/stylist ··· Jesus's dark side ··· Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's proofreader ··· H G Wells's teenage bride ··· Tom Cruise's dealer ··· Bill Hicks's mortician ··· Jack Kerouac's favourite gas station attendant ··· Kurt Vonnegut's tobacconist ··· Curtis Roads's roadie ··· Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's nanny ··· Pierre Schaeffer's recorder/pan pipe teacher ··· Donald Rumsfeld's conscience ··· Douglas R. Hofstadter's japanese teacher ··· William Gibson's harshest critic ··· Iris murdoch's GP ··· Leslie Charteris's penpal ··· Isaac Asimov's english teacher ··· Lou Reed's string arranger ··· Kingsley Amis's first kiss ··· Jimi Hendrix's accountant ··· Lao Tzu's mum ··· Steve Albini's CD player ··· George Orwell's bin man ··· Duane Denison's Jazz tutor ··· Albert Einstein's landlord ··· Groucho Marx's libel attorney ··· Les Paul's plaster cast ··· Jello Biafra's fitness instructor ··· Steve Jobs's stressball ··· Arvo Pärt's groupies ··· Philip K Dick's first wife ··· Winston Churchill's hat maker ··· Andres Segovia's manicurist ··· Lenny Bruce's rehab councillor ··· George Carlin's sex pest ··· Chris Rock's feminist opposition ··· Buddha's neuroses ··· Bob Marley's coconut cutter ··· Rip Van Winkel's pharmacist ···