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#MeToo in the music industry: meet the women fighting back
Dorothy Carvello was 24 when she went to work at Atlantic Records, where sexism, harassment and assault were part of office life. Step forward Camille Vasquez, who aims to expose the industry’s predatory bosses…
The Music Business Hasn’t Faced its #MeToo Reckoning. A New Foundation Wants to Change That
Face the Music Now, founded by advocate and author Dorothy Carvello, focuses on helping survivors of sexual misconduct in the music business
Warner Music Thanked Her for Exposing Sexual Harassment Allegations — And Silenced Her
Samantha Maloney’s story begins where most sexual harassment claims in the music industry end: with a non-disclosure agreement…
Report: Sony Music Knew Of Australia Workplace Abuse Allegations For Decades
In the U.S., Dorothy Carvello, who chronicled her own experience of sexual harassment while serving as Atlantic’s first female A&R representative in her book Anything For a Hit, told Billboard last week she wants to hold major music companies accountable by becoming an activist shareholder….
Music insider to ‘expose’ country music ‘hypocrites’ in new book
Country music should be shaking in its cowboy boots! A former Atlantic Records exec who penned a tell-all about rampant sexism in the music biz has set her sights on Nashville — the epicenter of the booming country music industry…
Podcast Interview:
The Jay Jay French Connection
Record industry veteran, author and activist Dorothy Carvello joins Jay Jay this week to discuss her tell all book about the record industry, "Anything for a Hit." This episode is a must listen for musicians and fans alike…
Russell Simmons Accusers Don’t Think Music Business Will Have Its #MeToo Moment
In January at the Sundance Film Festival, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s “On The Record,” a searing look at sexual harassment allegations against music mogul Russell Simmons, debuted and received two thunderous standing ovations….
Former Music Exec: “Who Knows if the Grammy’s Even Survive?
Carvello was the first ever female A&R executive for Atlantic Records. She says she was eventually fired for refusing to sit on a male colleague’s lap in a meeting. She has since been very vocal about her 23 years in what she calls the toxic male-dominated music industry…
Behind Oprah’s Russell Simmons Doc Defection: Filmmakers Blindsided, Accusers Vow to Move Forward
Last June, Oprah Winfrey and Apple signed on to a hot-button project — a documentary about sexual assault in the music industry. The partnership seemed to provide an extraordinary platform for the film and its makers,
Former music exec slams Grammys, plans next industry exposé
A former record exec who penned a tell-all exposing sexism in the music industry claims she was blackballed by the Grammys in its audio book category…
Sex abuse was rampant in the ‘80s music industry
Dorothy Carvello remembers the first time she was sexually battered by music-industry legend Ahmet Ertegun, the then-chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, the company he founded in 1947. The man who discovered Ray Charles, palled around with Mick Jagger and signed an emerging Led Zeppelin had accompanied Carvello, who was 25, to a converted roller rink in Allentown, Pa., in 1988. The two were seeing the heavy-metal band Skid Row, hoping they would sign the group to a record deal.
Palm Beach decorating: A good book and comfy chair make a perfect Father’s Day’s gift
These days, if you ask for my help in selecting a good read, I’m likely to suggest Dorothy Carvello’s inside story about the music business…
Evelyn McDonnell Nominated for LA Press Club Award
For her review of memoirs by Tina Turner & Dorothy Carvello for the New York Times.
The Manhandling of Rock ‘N’ Roll History
Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020…
Music’s #MeToo Reckoning and Who Really Cleans Up After Rock’s So-Called Excess
The aftermath of a Times exposé about Ryan Adams is still brewing, and an industry-wide cultural reckoning is still overdue. But what’s to come might foster a new generation of female talent…
Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs
“Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry” goes a long way toward explaining the culture of misogyny that, at best, looked the other way as women were mistreated and, at worst, cultivated abuse.
Good Day New York: Dorothy Carvello Interview
The music industry insider writes a tell-all, 'Anything for a Hit.'
'Anything For A Hit' Exclusive Book Excerpt: Atlantic Records in the '80s Was Like Plunging Into 'A Circus Mixed with an Orgy'
In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry, the author recalls her harrowing experience working for Atlantic Records in a pre-#MeToo record industry...
Inside Track: 'Anything For A Hit' Author Seeks to Become Activist Shareholder With Major Labels
Dorothy Carvello says she has purchased shares of all three major record companies with the intention of seeking more transparency in the music industry.
How Can the Grammys Be Fixed?
Much like watching the Grammys, complaining about “music’s biggest night” is an annual tradition. This year, the usual discussions about how the Recording Academy could do better took on particular urgency after the organization abruptly ousted CEO Deborah Dugan, who then filed a discrimination complaint alleging a “boy’s club” environment rife with sexual harassment…
Songwriters Hall of Fame CEO Linda Moran Talks About Being 'Godmother' to Music's Top Execs and Artists
“If Linda ever wrote a book, people would be in prison,” says Dorothy Carvello, an Atlantic A&R person in the 1980s who detailed a culture of unrestrained misbehavior and sexual harassment -- a “circus mixed with an orgy” -- in her own tell-all, Anything for a Hit….
How #MeToo is making once-beloved songs and artists strike a sour note
As #MeToo gathers volume in the music industry, some DJs and artists are pulling the plug on accused-predator musicians and creepy-in-retrospect lyrics…
EP 91: Interview with Dorothy Carvello
When we read Dorothy Carvello‘s memoir Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry we were blown away. Dorothy had a life-long dream of working in the music industry and when the opportunity arose to work for Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegun…
Dorothy Carvello’s Book
If “Anything For A Hit” was written by a man it would be a best-seller. Every, and I mean EVERY wannabe should devour this book. Because it delineates the game and how it is played, and it’s much worse than you’ve ever dreamed.
Book Review: Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry – Dorothy Carvello
Anything For A Hit takes the reader inside the offices of the biggest record labels and provides a jaw dropping look at what really happens behind closed (and sometimes open) doors. The book describes many of the underhanded tactics executives would take at the expense of others.
New book details misogyny in music industry
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...
'Anything For A Hit' Author Dorothy Carvello on #MeToo and Music: 'Men Are Not the Enemy'
While working at Atlantic Records from 1987-1990, when, she says, she was fired for complaining about the misogynistic treatment she suffered at the hands of the virtually all-male executive staff there, Dorothy Carvello realized that the diaries she had been keeping could make a good book....
Drugs, Hookers & Sexual Harassment: Music Industry Secrets Exposed In Salacious Tell All
Former Atlantic Records A & R employee Dorothy Carvello has claimed the music industry was like “a circus mixed with an orgy" in her new tell-all book, RadarOnline.com can exclusively report. In another eye-opening salvo for the #MeToo movement, Carvello has written Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry.
Exposé of Shady Music Biz of Decades Past Has Today's Record Labels Abuzz
The book, which sheds light on some shady business practices and heinous behavior that women in the music business have endured from their male counterparts over the years, comes as the #MeToo movement continues to build…
Atlantic’s First Female A&R Exec Dorothy Carvello Releases #MeToo Story in Book, ‘Anything for a Hit’
Dorothy Carvello has come a long way from her first post as secretary for Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Record’s co-founder and president, who signed such notable acts as Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, negotiated distribution deals with Mick Jagger, and added Neil Young to Crosby, Stills & Nash.
I Wrote a Book About #MeToo and the Music Business; Here’s What Happened After
When I released my book, “Anything For A Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story Of Surviving The Music Industry,” in September 2018, it was a starkly different environment than when I wrote it in 2016. arvey Weinstein had been outed, Les Moonves was about to be removed from his CBS throne and Matt Lauer was weeks away from his own dismissal. #MeToo had hit the film and TV business…
Sony May Have Dropped R. Kelly, But They’re Still Profiting From His Old Songs
After years of pressure peaked with the much-watched debut of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, Sony subsidiary RCA Records finally dropped the singer from its roster…
Former Music Executive: ‘We Must Come Forward and Name Our Abusers’
I grew up in a middle-class family in Brooklyn, N.Y. Back then, the boys in the ’hood dubbed me Bossy Bebe. “Bossy” was a term of shame for a girl — we weren’t supposed to be bosses. I cried when they teased me, but I had a clear vision of how things should be...
Record industry sexism exposed in new tell-all book
A new book seeks to expose rampant sex and drugs in the music industry — not only enjoyed by artists, but by the misogynistic record-company executives who sign them to their labels. Dorothy Carvello — who started out as Ahmet Ertegun’s secretary and became the first female A&R exec at Atlantic Records in the late 1980s...
Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry
In this hard-hitting, profanity-laced tell-all recounting 19 years at some of the biggest recording companies, Carvello takes readers inside the pre-digital music industry of the 1960s through the ’80s. At age 24, Carvello became secretary to Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, and describes his tirades that fostered a company culture of “toxic masculinity...”
Porn, sex toys, cocaine, a Rolodex of groupies and boasts about manhood size - the sordid truth about life inside Atlantic Records
Dorothy Carvello, the first female A&R executive for Atlantic Records, has lifted the lid on the culture of sexual harassment in the music industry in the 1980s…
Atlantic Records in the '80s Was Like Plunging Into a 'Circus Mixed with an Orgy!'
Dorothy Carvello thought she was stepping into a world of glitz and glamour in 1987 when she landed a job as secretary to legendary Atlantic Records exec Ahmet Ertegun -- the man who signed everyone from Aretha Franklin to Led Zeppelin.
Sex abuse was rampant in the ‘80s music industry
Dorothy Carvello remembers the first time she was sexually battered by music-industry legend Ahmet Ertegun, the then-chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, the company he founded in 1947. The man who discovered Ray Charles, palled around with Mick Jagger and signed an emerging Led Zeppelin...
Rock and Roll Book Club: Dorothy Carvello's 'Anything for a Hit’
Imagine this scenario. You're a woman in the music industry, and you walk in to greet a professional peer. He looks up from his piano and says, "Why are you wearing a red bra?" You reply, "Why are you looking down my shirt?" You both...laugh? Yep. This cringe-worthy incident (the man is Frank DiLeo) counts as one of the happier moments in Dorothy Carvello's memoir…
‘It Was A Porn Movie’: Atlantic’s First Female A&R Exec Reveals the Worst of the Music Industry
“Men are going to try to break you,” one of Dorothy Carvello’s teachers told her in grade school — and, she says, they were words that seemed to prove true every day she worked in the record industry…