Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number

I clearly don't have enough proper work to do.

My Erdös number is on my front page, but inspired by a talk by Andrew Norton I've looked into other numbers.

Our local community choir, the Towcester Choral Society, has the enormous good fortune to have a superb choral director Helen Swift who secures some amazing soloists. In 2015 our Mozart Mass in C had the phenomenal Morag Boyle as the Alto soloist. Morag also performed in The Midsummer Marriage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021, who also performed with Luciano Pavarotti in 1996 (I'm assuming LPO didn't completely change their membership, though if they did this will add to my Sabbath number). Pavarotti in turn performed Nessun Dorma with Freddie Mercury, who of course performed in Queen with Brian May for decades. Finally, Brian May performed with Black Sabbath in 2021, giving me a Sabbath number of no more than six.

I’ve done TV and radio, both on- and off-screen, but never to my knowledge appeared in a film, so my Bacon number is currently infinite under the stricter reading of the rules of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. If you allow TV though, Dallas Campbell has a film-only Bacon number of two according to the Oracle of Bacon (Dallas Campbell was in Doomwatch: Winter Angel with Michael Sheen who was in Frost/Nixon with Kevin Bacon), and I appeared in the Human Power Station special episode of the Bang Goes The Theory BBC TV show with Dallas, so my not-strict Bacon number would be 3, and my Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number would be 3+6+3=12.

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