he music industry's most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music's heyday.During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels and artists such as Michael
Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand and James Taylor. They were all under contract to CBS Records, making it the most successful label of the era. And, as the company's
president, Walter Yetnikoff was the ruling monarch. He was also the most flamboyant, volatile and
controversial personality to emerge from an industry and era defined by sex, drugs and debauchery. Having risen from…
