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Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?
She managed tours for Queen and Led Zeppelin and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split – but O’Dell is most proud of her legacy as a woman in a macho industry
A new documentary charts the extent of that CV, as a music manager with bands including Fleetwood Mac, Genesis and Santana, but it all began with a chance encounter in Los Angeles in 1968. Photograph: Liverpool West ProductionsO’Dell expands on this story (and many more) in the new documentary, which sees her return to key sites such as the Apple offices on London’s Wigmore Street and Saville Row. As O’Dell remembers, the drama unfolded over just a few days, with Mitchell debuting the song at Gordon Lightfoot’s home during a stop on the tour (an incident captured in Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story).
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