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O'Dell, Chris with Katherine Ketcham. Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved. Touchstone: S. & S. Oct. 2009. c.352p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-4165-9093-4. $26. FILM
Talk about just falling into something—a chance meeting in 1968 with Derek Taylor, the Beatles' press agent and soon-to-be VIP at Apple Records, led the young O'Dell to leave L.A. impulsively for London, where she eventually landed a job at Apple and began a star-studded rock 'n' roll life. She admits, "I wasn't famous. I wasn't even almost famous. But I was there." She sure was. She toured with the Rolling Stones, was BFF with Pattie Boyd and confidante to Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, and others, and George Harrison even wrote a song about her ("Miss O'Dell"). She lived in the fast lane for almost 20 years until drug addiction and a failed marriage slowed her down. Now sober and a mother, O'Dell shares her life as an insider during one of the world's most exciting musical eras. VERDICT A baby boomer's delight. Those who enjoyed Pamela Des Barres's I'm with the Band and Pattie Boyd's Wonderful Tonight will especially want this book, and celebrity watchers will devour the "Where Are They Now" afterword.—Rosellen Brewer, Sno-Isle Libs., Marysville, WA
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