
Miss O'Dell
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Reneé Raudman
My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles,The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved
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.
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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Editorial reviews
This incandescent and lyrical work by author and Guggenheim Fellow Victor Lodato explores with delicacy, humor, and depth the story of teenager Mathilda Savitch as she attempts to make sense of the world and everything in it in the wake of her older sister's death.
Voice actor Cassandra Campbell's light, self-deprecating tone ideally complements Mathilda's quick intelligence and wit, which mask a grief that her traumatized parents are unable and unwilling to acknowledge. Campbell's performance of this inventive and affecting work is spot-on, allowing readers access to the deepest recesses of Mathilda's mind, and rendering this audiobook a truly moving and unforgettable experience.
Critic reviews
"[D]evastating detail yet without envy or malice...a rockin' good read." (Philip Norman, author of Shout! and John Lennon: The Life)
"I enjoyed reading it very much. It is an astonishing look into the backstage of rock and roll." (Leon Russell)
she lived a hell of a life!
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absolutely fascinating
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She ends her relationship with Leon Russell for kissing someone else but has no qualms about sleeping with married men, some of whom are married to her "close friends". She sponged off of people then got offended when she got called out for it. Every man she ever met seemed to be a potential boyfriend. She married the one mom musician she met who had serious cash to go along with his serious addictions, then gets offended when Eric Clapton calls her on it. She doesn't want to exploit her "friendships" but she sells books about it and still hangs their pictures on her office wall. I get that at the time, she was a drunk and a drug abuser (as were many of her associates) but she doesn't seem to have gained much perspective. Glad she's alive and sober, though, and that her son survived his formative years. Chris O'Dell's friends would be wise to keep their hands on their wallet and not let her stay in their spare room lol!
How Could She Be Anybody's "close friend"?
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Very good book for music fans of that era.
Great Book
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One of the best Rock books ever written!
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Amazing
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Awesomeness
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A must read
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Fantastic
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So Now We Know Miss O'Dell
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