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Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Topic
Music
Features
1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author
Walter Yetnikoff
Subject
Performing Arts
Special Attributes
Inscribed
ISBN
9780767915366

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Broadway Books
ISBN-10
0767915364
ISBN-13
9780767915366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30409051

Product Key Features

Book Title
Howling at the Moon : the Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Author
Walter Yetnikoff
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-060087
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A deliciously decadent read." -People "A dizzying ride on the turntable of life." -New York Times "Few record-company heads have written autobiographies, and fewer still have penned ones as candid as Howling at the Moon . . . Yetnikoff knows what readers want." -Entertainment Weekly "Brisk, uncensored and often hilarious . . . highly entertaining." -Kirkus Reviews "An un-put-downable repository of A-list gossip and narco-fueled weirdness." -Blender, "A deliciously decadent read." -People"A dizzying ride on the turntable of life." -New York Times"Few record-company heads have written autobiographies, and fewer still have penned ones as candid asHowling at the Moon. . . Yetnikoff knows what readers want." -Entertainment Weekly "Brisk, uncensored and often hilarious . . . highly entertaining." -Kirkus Reviews "An un-put-downable repository of A-list gossip and narco-fueled weirdness." -Blender
Dewey Decimal
338.7/6178164/092 B
Synopsis
Show biz memoir at its name-dropping, bridge-burning, profane best: the 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 working-class Brooklyn and the legal department of CBS, Yetnikoff, who freely admitted to being tone deaf, was an unlikely label head. But he had an uncanny knack for fostering talent and intimidating rivals with his appalling behavior-usually fueled by an explosive combination of cocaine and alcohol. His tantrums, appetite for mind-altering substances and sexual exploits were legendary. In Japan to meet the Sony executives who acquired CBS during his tenure, Walter was assigned a minder who confined him to a hotel room. True to form, Walter raided the minibar, got blasted and, seeing no other means of escape, opened a hotel window and vented his rage by literally howling at the moon. In Howling at the Moon, Yetnikoff traces his journey as he climbed the corporate mountain, danced on its summit and crashed and burned. We see how Walter became the father-confessor to Michael Jackson as the King of Pop reconstructed his face and agonized over his image while constructing Thriller (and how, after it won seven Grammies, Jackson made the preposterous demand that Walter take producer Quincy Jones's name off the album); we see Walter, in maniacal pursuit of a contract, chase the Rolling Stones around the world and nearly come to blows with Mick Jagger in the process; we get the tale of how Walter and Marvin Gaye-fresh from the success of "Sexual Healing"-share the same woman, and of how Walter bonds with Bob Dylan because of their mutual Jewishness. At the same time we witness Yetnikoff's clashes with Barry Diller, David Geffen, Tommy Mottola, Allen Grubman and a host of others. Seemingly, the more Yetnikoff feeds his cravings for power, sex, liquor and cocaine, the more profitable CBS becomes-from $485 million to well over $2 billion-until he finally succumbs, ironically, not to substances, but to a corporate coup. Reflecting on the sinister cycle that left his career in tatters and CBS flush with cash, Yetnikoff emerges with a hunger for redemption and a new reverence for his working-class Brooklyn roots. Ruthlessly candid, uproariously hilarious and compulsively readable, Howling at the Moon is a blistering You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again of the music industry.
LC Classification Number
ML429.Y48A3 2004

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  • by happyhorse29
    01 Sep, 2021

    This is the music biz!

    If you want an instructional manual on the characters you have to deal with at the major labels this is it. I've read them all and none come close to this revealing bio.

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