How is the father of psychoanalysis connected to the founder of the Beatles?

Sex, money and marital dysfunction: It’s all there in the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce settlement, splayed out in 58 revelatory pages that read more like a British tabloid story than a legal decision.

When Forbes published its list of the year’s top-earning dead celebrities, we set ourselves a challenge.

If everyone is separated by six degrees (or less), shouldn’t it be possible to link every name on the list in a single map?

The ranking, topped by Elvis Presley, includes 13 people - musicians, actors, a cartoonist, a children’s author, an artist and a Nobel Prize winner. Their birth years span nearly a century, from 1879 to 1971.