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In the early 1960s, Suzy Zeiger, nicknamed Suzy Creamcheese, was a peripheral member of the retinue of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. After the real Suzy left the group, other people used the name “Suzy Creamcheese” in Mothers’ performances. Eventually, it was widely thought that she had always been a fictitious character. On the album Freak Out!, Suzy Creamcheese was played by Jeannie Vassoir; on Absolutely Free and Mothermania it was Lisa Cohen; and on We’re Only in It for the Money and Uncle Meat it was Pamela Zarubica. The real Suzy continued to use the name “Suzy Creamcheese”. She moved to London, England, where she was for a while the girlfriend of John Hopkins, a leading figure in the British hippie subculture. She was also associated with the unorthodox psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Zappa claimed that in a 1967 tour in Europe, some fans asked him if Suzy toured with them. Because of that, Zappa used Zarubica as Suzy in that tour. In fact, the first performance of the tour took place in the Royal Albert Hall, in London, when the real Suzy lived there.