This morning, I drove into New York City to meet a friend for breakfast and heard this bit of news on the radio:
Call him Jumpin' Jack Cash.Keith Richards, co-founder of the Rolling Stones, is starting up the bidding war for his life story and is likely to get lots of satisfaction as publishers have already pushed the price tag for the advance to $7.3 million in the hottest biding war of the year.
By late yesterday, the bidding had narrowed down to two houses, HarperCollins and Little Brown.
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At the outset, Richards' only goal was to beat the nearly $5 million advance that Eric Clapton snagged for his memoir, due out this October.
Richards had an advance of $1.6 million to write his life story for Bantam in the 1980s, but gave it back after he supposedly told the publisher he couldn't recall enough to fill a book.
As I am currently a little strapped for cash, I have decided to officially put my own life story on the auction block. Although I am not a rock legend or one of the living dead, I did once cause such a scene in Wal-Mart that a security guard was compelled to flash his sidearm at me. You know you want to know all of the sordid details. Bidding starts at $7.30.
