HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/14/2009 - "I've wanted to write a book for years but there was a loyalty to the Beatles," says Miss O'Dell author Chris O'Dell. "It was understood that you didn't talk about what you saw and heard, especially to the press. As I got older and got a better perspective on my life, I saw the value in writing about this wonderful unique period of music history, including my battle with drugs and alcohol."

Nicknamed the Pisces Apple Lady, O'Dell was an assistant at Apple Records and later a tour manager. The book Miss O'Dell tells her story of a life with rock-and-roll's most famous names, including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan. She has songs written about her and is an insider to all the craziness that went on behind the scenes in music. The loss, love, pain and the long hours of work are all here.

O'Dell was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be. When Paul recorded "Hey Jude," she sang in the chorus. She lived with George Harrison and Pattie Boyd at Friar Park. She was close to Ringo, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan.

O'Dell is the "Miss O'Dell" of the George Harrison song. She's "the woman down the hall" in the Joni Mitchell song "Coyote", about a love triangle on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour. She's the "Pisces Apple Lady" in the Leon Russell song. She's the "mystery woman" pictured on the back of the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street.

"The hardest thing was realizing how vulnerable and exposed I had to be in writing the book," says O'Dell. "It required an honesty about who I was, to be truthful. I had to often look up tour dates to make sure I was right and get specific spellings. But, mostly this book was done from notes, journals, and my detailed memory."

For a typical day on tour, O'Dell would wake up between 7 and 9am, get a thermos of room service coffee, then get on the phone to set up the next days of travel. "Then I'd wake up the band, if it was a travel day, and give them the time that the luggage would be collected," says O'Dell. "I'd run downstairs after getting dressed and packed and meet the limos or buses that were going to take us to the airport. Then I'd have to make sure the musicians and traveling party all came down in time."

Chris O'Dell, with co-writer Kathy Ketcham, writes is a fascinating look into the lives of some of the biggest names in Rock-and-Roll. It has the insight of someone close to the stars. Chris O'Dell was just a girl who loved music and grabbed the opportunity when it came. Although the book does focus on the stars, more about what happened after she left the music industry, got sober and straightened out her life would have been interesting. She reveals much about others' tragedies and triumphs, but leaves out some of her own.

O'Dell's editor is Trish Todd at Touchstone Books. "She's the best, says O'Dell. "Kathy and I worked for a year on the book and then turned it in to Trish who made editorial changes. We went through about five different edits of the book. It was hard to stop."

O'Dell's agent is Linda Loewenthal of the David Black Agency in New York. "My fabulous co-writer, Kathy Ketcham, took me to her," says O'Dell. "She's her agent and they had worked together on another book Kathy co-wrote."

Many people from O'Dell's life on the road have been able to reconnect with her through the book. "People have emailed me on Facebook. One man, who had lived in an Eastern European country in the late 60s, told me that he had written to many companies in London looking for a job. Apple was one of them. The only response was from me while I was at Apple. He said it made him so happy."

Chris O'Dell was born in Muncie, Indiana. And her family moved to Keota, Oklahoma when she was 1 1/2 yrs old. O'Dell currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. O'Dell counsels those with addiction and other mental health issues and is a public speaker. "Hopefully, I'll inspire someone to go after their dreams or look at their addictive behavior."