DANCE HALL DAYS

something inside of her “bloomed” she recalls.

The next day he tagged along to her band rehearsal, and liked what he heard. So he took them to meet Neil Bogart, the president of KISS’s label, Casablanca — and Bogart signed them on the spot.

Sagal’s big break fizzled, after the band’s record bombed and they got dropped. But she maintained an off-and-on affair with Simmons, whom she fell for despite knowing what a womanizer he was — even after finding hundreds of Polaroids of his conquests in his New York apartment.

“I fantasized that I would be the exception,” she writes in the book, which details her years in the music business and her shift to acting, her drug use and subsequent sobriety, an early bout with cancer and her three marriages.

When she started dating another musician who proposed to her, she accepted — but only after telling Simmons she’d decline if he wanted to marry her: he laughed.

Simmons left her with enduring advice, she says: don’t give up her career ambitions for a man. “And I never did,” Sagal writes, saying that was a lesson she needed to learn. Former “Today” show cohost (inset) hairstylist to dance “the Midnight Quadrille” at the 62nd Viennese Opera Ball at Lincoln Center, where, onlookers tell us, the pair moved together well. Hall stepped away from NBC earlier this month after the network hired former Fox talking head The National Association of Black Journalists has accused the network of “whitewashing” in light of that move. The Peacock Network stands by its record on diversity. joined