She wasn’t even almost famous. But the men she bedded — from Ringo Starr to Mick Jagger to Bob Dylan — were the ‘60s biggest stars.
Chris O’Dell — George Harrison’s song “Miss O’Dell” was about her — dishes on her life as an assistant to the stars in a memoir filled with the plenty of the requisite sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.
O’Dell, originally from California, started out as an assistant to the Beatles at the famed Apple headquarters in London. There, she worked odd jobs around the office grabbing lunch for producers, picking up people at the airport, and, ultimately, drinking whiskey with George Harrison while singing back-up on parts of the “Let It Be” album.
Around the time the Beatles disbanded, O’Dell lived with Harrison and his wife Pattie. There she witnessed Harrison’s increasing obsession with meditation, his affair with Starr’s wife Maureen, and his frequent cocaine benders. She also was in the middle of Pattie’s legendary affair with Eric Clapton.
After the Beatles, she moved on to the bad boys of rock ‘n’ roll — the Rolling Stones. Serving as their personal assistant, she even tended to Mick Jagger’s insatiable lust for women, bedding him several times on tour, and picked up drugs for Keith Richards.
Musical poet Dylan was next — and he proved himself a smooth-talker even in the bedroom. O’Dell recalls how Dylan enticed her into his hotel room while his wife was fast asleep upstairs.
Miss O’Dell
by Chris O’Dell with Katherine Ketcham
Simon & Schuster