I haven't read it--yet--but this review is on a book that might be a good candidate for the next revival of the BBC. Here's an excerpt (emphasis added) and the url for the entire review:

Book Review: Steve Goodman Facing The Music by Clay Eals
Written by Richard Marcus
Published May 25, 2007

... when a book is 800 pages long and over 1,000 people have been interviewed in its making you can't go wrong starting with exhaustive.

If you've never heard of Steve Goodman, and I'm sure there are a sizable number of people who haven't, you're probably going to be wondering why so much effort has gone into writing a book about this guy. That's probably a fair question and can be best answered a couple of ways.

First of all there are the people who were interviewed for this book; starting with Arlo Guthrie who wrote the foreword and Studs Terkel who wrote the preface and then proceeding down the line to Steve Martin (Yes the Steve Martin) Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Rait, Jackson Brown, Randy Newman, Lily Tomlin, Carl Reiner, Martin Mull, Marty Stuart, and some woman named Hillary Rodham Clinton. Of course there were like a thousand more then that but those are just some of the highlights.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/25/172314.php

the day your born they sign a piece of paper
to certify the date of your birth
and the day that you die they sign another
just to prove you returned to the Earth

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the story of your life is written
but you must read in between the lines