As Walter Yetnikoff told it, he would wake from his “nightly coma”, pour himself a large vodka and chop a line of cocaine before fielding calls from the likes of Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and Billy Joel. At the office he would decant more drink and inhale more illicit substances. The phone would continue to ring and he would demand to know the whereabouts of his secretary, one of the many women with whom he was sleeping. This, he claimed, was a typical day for the president of CBS Records. In Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess (2004), Yetnikoff’s highly entertaining and salaciously gossipy memoir, the company’s self-proclaimed “führer” described a sex, drugs and rock’n’roll

Source: The Times August 17, 2021 16:01 UTC