A slog though it always is, I find myself obliged each year to trawl through the annual Rich List supplied by The Sunday Times. This is partly in order that I can marvel at the vast number of what Dame Edna Everage would call “squillionaires” that one has never heard of.

Clive Calder’s was one of the unknown names I noted this year. With an estimated fortune of £1,300m, the former record company executive — now in retirement in the Cayman Islands (where else?) — heads the list of music millionaires.

Next behind him, with a fortune barely half of his own, comes Lord Lloyd-Webber.

His songwriting partner Tim Rice, with whom he has collaborated again on The Wizard of Oz, of course makes the listings too. His familiar features (PICTURED) jumped out at me from Page 57 of the publication. But a glance at the entry led me to the discovery that this was not Sir Tim at all but a property developer called Rodger [sic] Dudding.

Then, even as I was musing on the notion of Rice posessing a double, my eye flicked to page 56 (confirming a fact long known to journalists, that people read right-hand pages first) to find myself staring at the man himself (pictured). The entry revealed that besides a fondness for absurd cricketing garb, the songwriter is an admirer of the daubings of Scottish ‘artist’ Jack Vettriano. As one might have guessed, I suppose.