Music pro tells all

A new book about the glory days of the music industry will expose the abuses of women that went along with the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll.

Dorothy Carvello — whose 25-year career in the business included five years under Atlantic Records legend Ahmet Ertegun — is the first woman in the #MeToo era to write a book about the music industry.

In “Anything for a Hit” (Chicago Review Press, out Sept. 4), Carvello details the “Mad Men”-like misogyny in a field where DJs were being bribed with co- caine and sex workers, and some record moguls were hiring and promoting their girlfriends.

Carvello has kept her manuscript under tight security. No one has gotten a galley. Would-be excerpt publishers must come to her to read it and sign a nondisclosure agreement. Doug Morris, who has run all three major music groups — Sony, Universal and Warner — admitted he tried and failed to get a copy. “I worked with her at Warner for 16 years. I wanted to read it,” Morris told me.

Instead, he was debriefed by someone else who had. “I hear it’s a good book, very wellwritten,” Morris said.

Ertegun, a legendary Lothario who hung out with Mick Jagger (inset), is exposed as a chauvinist. But Morris doesn’t come off badly, he heard.

Carvello said, “I’m flattered he’s talking about my book. I’ll happily autograph his copy when he buys one.”