A showbiz insider's expose, this is the autobiography of Walter Yetnikoff, head of CBS Records during its heyday in the 1980s, and then the most powerful man in the music industry. Yetnikoff knew most of the stars and embraced all the excesses of this era: he was mentor to Streisand, father-confessor to Michael Jackson, shared a mistress with Marvin Gaye and came to blows with Mick Jagger. He feuded with David Geffen and outmanoeuvred Rupert Murdoch. He was also addicted to cocaine and alcohol - until his doctor gave him just three months to live. Yetnikoff came from a working-class Jewish family from Brooklyn; he graduated from law school in the 1950s and proceeded to climb the corporate ladder to the very top. His high-flying ended in breakdown, but throughout his rise and fall, Yetnikoff remained a man of huge charisma and disarming charm.
- ISBN10 0316725676
- ISBN13 9780316725675
- Publish Date 4 March 2004 (first published 5 February 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 22 September 2004
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 384
- Language English