Howling at the moon

From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, Walter Yetnikoff was the most powerful man in the music business. The head of CBS Records, his roster of artists reads like a Who's Who of superstar talent -Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Paul Simon and Public Enemy.Howling at the Moon is his candid, no-holds barred account of life at the top of the music industry. It is a star-studded story of musical egos and tantrums, of taming highly strung executives and rival moguls, and of succumbing to the quartet of addictions that defined the era: power, sex, cocaine and booze. For as outrageously as his stars behaved, Yetnikoff's own life matched theirs - and then some. The more he fed his cravings, the bigger the profits. The bigger the profits, the greater the rewards.