Groupie lifts lid on Beatles, Rolling Stones wild lives
International
oi-Staff
London
(ANI):
A
groupie
who
had
flings
with
Ringo
Starr
and
Sir
Mick
Jagger
has
lifted
the
lid
on
the
wild
lives
led
by
the
Beatles
and
the
Rolling
Stones
in
her
memoir.
Chris
O'Dell,
who
had
a
chance
to
take
a
close
peek
at
the
lives
of
the
Fab
four,
the
Rolling
Stones
and
Bob
Dylan
has
written
about
their
excesses
in
her
book
tilted
''Miss
O''Dell:
My
Hard
Days
and
Long
Nights
with
the
Beatles,
the
Stones,
Bob
Dylan,
Eric
Clapton,
and
the
Women
They
Loved''.
O''Dell
worked
as
a
personal
assistant
in
the
music
industry
during
the
1960s
and
1970s.
At
62,
she
recalls
her
heyday
with
the
celebs
"like
being
given
the
keys
to
Disneyland".
In
her
book,
she
writes
about
the
day
when
Harrison
confessed
before
Starr''s
that
he
was
sleeping
around
with
his
wife,
Maureen.
"You
know,
Ringo,
I'm
in
love
with
your
wife," Harrison
told
Starr
as
they
sat
at
his
kitchen
table.
"Better
you
than
someone
we
don't
know,"
Starr
replied
carelessly.
O'Dell,
who
had
a
three-month
fling
with
Starr,
says
the
Beatles
were
heavily
into
drugs.
She
said:
"We
all
drank
and
took
coke,
pot,
amphetamines
all
the
time."
She
has
also
penned
her
plane
journey
with
John
Lennon
and
Yoko
Ono.
"The
plane
started
hitting
some
turbulence
and
then
John
and
Yoko
started
singing
the
Hari
Krishna
chant.
So
we
just
chanted
our
way
to
the
earth,
basically,
until
we
landed.
And
I
thought,
well,
if
I
die
here
at
least
I''ll
be
on
the
front
page,"
the
Telegraph
quoted
O''Dell,
as
writing.
After
the
Beatles
split,
O''Dell
joined
the
Rolling
Stones
as
their
personal
assistant
and
travelled
with
them
on
their
infamous
1972
tour.
She
writes
about
her
affair
with
Jagger
as:
"If
there
had
been
a
job
description
being
employed
by
the
Stones
back
then,
I''m
pretty
sure
it
would
have
included
a
proviso
that
went
something
like
this:
sleep
with
Mick
whenever
he
asks."
Two
years
later
she
romanced
Bob
Dylan
after
taking
the
job
of
a
tour
manager
with
him.
O''Dell
claims
that
Starr
has
welcomed
her
book.
She
said:
"We''re
in
our
sixties
now,
some
of
us
are
even
creeping
towards
our
seventies.
Everybody
is
grown
up
enough
to
realise
this
is
what
happened.
We''re
well
past
it.
Ringo''s
attitude
today
is,
fine,
as
long
as
you
tell
the
truth."