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Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved

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Chris O'Dell Wasn't Famous. She Wasn't Even Almost Famous. But She Was There.

She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be, and when Paul recorded "Hey Jude," she sang in the chorus.

She was at Ringo's kitchen table when George Harrison said, "You know, Ringo, I'm in love with your wife." And Ringo replied, "Better you than someone we don't know."

She typed the lyrics to George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. She lived with George and Pattie Boyd at Friar Park, developed a crush on Eric Clapton, and unwittingly got involved in the famous love story between Eric and Pattie.

She's the subject of Leon Russell's "Pisces Apple Lady," a song he wrote to woo her. Other rock legends with whom she was intimate include Ringo, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan.

She worked with the Rolling Stones as their personal assistant on their infamous 1972 tour and did a drug run for Keith Richards.

She's "the woman down the hall" in Joni Mitchell's song "Coyote" about a love triangle on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour. She's the "mystery woman" pictured on the back of the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street. She's the "Miss O'Dell" of George Harrison's song about her.

Miss O'Dell is the remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions -- to be part of rock royalty's trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O'Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.

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Publisher
Touchstone
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Derek Taylor
Ciros
Apple
Lunch at the Aretusa
James Taylor
First session
The lady is a champ
Ireland
Savoy truffle
Hell's Angels
Up on the roof
Isle of Wight
Leon
Pisces Apple lady
Hummingbird
Flying away
Friar Park
Pattie's birthday party
Hare Krishnas
Back to Apple
Eric & the Dominos
Miss O'Dell
Bangladesh
The Rolling Stones
The Stones tour
Too many sunrises
Maureen
Christmas in England
Ringo
CSNY reunion tour
Jamaica
George's tour
Santana, etc.
Rolling thunder
Dancing with Dylan
Pattie's wedding
Lost years
Aristocracy
William.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography, Anecdotes

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
782.42166092, B
Library of Congress
ML429.O24 A3 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23203193M
Internet Archive
missodellmyhardd00odel
ISBN 10
1416590935
ISBN 13
9781416590934
LCCN
2009014555
OCLC/WorldCat
310397074
Library Thing
8948522
Goodreads
6455172

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