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"Miss O'Dell" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the B-side of his 1973 hit single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)". Like Leon Russell's "Pisces Apple Lady", it was inspired by Chris O'Dell, a former Apple employee, and variously assistant and facilitator to musical acts such as the Beatles, Derek & the Dominos, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Santana. Harrison wrote the song in Los Angeles in April 1971 while waiting for O'Dell to pay him a visit at his rented home. As well as reflecting her failure to keep the appointment, the lyrics provide a light-hearted insight into the Los Angeles music scene and comment on the growing crisis in East Pakistan that led Harrison to stage the Concert for Bangladesh in August that year. Harrison recorded "Miss O'Dell" in England between October 1972 and February 1973, during the sessions for his ''Living in the Material World'' album. The arrangement reflects the influence of Dylan, and the recording is notable for Harrison breaking into laughter midway through the verses. A popular B-side, "Miss O'Dell" was unavailable officially for over 30 years after this initial release, until its inclusion as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of ''Material World''. An alternate, laughter-free vocal take of the song circulates on Harrison bootleg CDs and was included on the DVD accompanying the deluxe edition of ''Living in the Material World'' in 2006. O'Dell named her 2009 autobiography after the song. ==Background and composition== After arriving in London from Los Angeles in mid May 1968, to start work at the Beatles' Apple Corps headquarters at the invitation of her friend Derek Taylor,〔O'Dell, pp. 15, 17.〕 Chris O'Dell began a career that saw her become, in author Philip Norman's words, "the ultimate insider" in rock-music circles.〔Philip Norman, dust-jacket quote in O'Dell.〕 In the space of two years, O'Dell witnessed first-hand a series of key moments in rock 'n' roll:〔David Gardner, ("'I Was the Ultimate Rock Chick!' She had affairs with Jagger, Dylan and Ringo and faced death with John and Yoko" ), ''Daily Mail'' online, 31 October 2009 (retrieved 27 July 2012).〕 she joined in the backing chorus on the song "Hey Jude"; she was on the Apple rooftop in January 1969 when the Beatles played live for the last time; she personally delivered the harmonicas for Bob Dylan's comeback performance at the Isle of Wight; and on the day Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the Beatles, she was there at George Harrison's Friar Park mansion when Harrison and John Lennon met to discuss the news.〔O'Dell, pp. 54–56, 74–77, 155.〕 Later in the 1970s, O'Dell went on to work with the Rolling Stones, during the LA sessions for ''Exile on Main St.'' (1972) and their subsequent "STP" US tour, and on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1974 reunion tour and Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975, but her heart would remain with the Beatles〔 – her time with the Stones, she says, felt like a "climb ''down'' the ladder".〔O'Dell, p. 214.〕 Similarly, after working for Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd during their first few months at Friar Park, from March to June 1970, she would always view the Henley estate as a spiritual home,〔O'Dell, pp. 188, 233.〕 and the Harrisons as her most important friends in the fickle world of the music business.〔O'Dell, pp. 161, 162, 185, 188, 193, 214.〕 Adding to the list of what Britain's ''Daily Mail'' has described as her "certainly impressive" credentials,〔 O'Dell assisted Harrison in preparing for the recording sessions for ''All Things Must Pass'' (1970), helped him recruit musicians for the Bangladesh benefit concerts, served on his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar, and was privy to the details that ended the Harrisons' marriage as well as that of Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey.〔O'Dell, pp. 156, 172–73, 196–98, 257–66, 302, 305–06.〕 By April 1971, O'Dell was back in California, working with former Apple Records A&R manager Peter Asher on developing the careers of singer-songwriters such as James Taylor, Carole King and Linda Ronstadt.〔O'Dell, pp. 182–83.〕 At the same time, Harrison, having recently contributed to the debut solo album by Bobby Whitlock, formerly of Derek & the Dominos, and finished the Radha Krishna Temple (London) album〔Leng, p. 123.〕〔Castleman & Podrazik, p. 101.〕 – both acts that O'Dell had been involved with professionally in 1969–70 – was now in Los Angeles to begin work on Shankar's ''Raga'' film soundtrack.〔〔Lavezzoli, p. 187.〕 He had also been informed of the tragic events occurring in Shankar's homeland, following the Bhola cyclone and the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.〔Leng, p. 111.〕〔O'Dell, p. 189.〕 This was an issue that Harrison dealt with in the opening verse of a song he began writing, "Miss O'Dell",〔Len Comaratta, ("Dusting 'Em Off: George Harrison and Friends – The Concert For Bangladesh" ), Consequence of Sound, 29 December 2012 (archived version retrieved 15 August 2014).〕 while waiting for his eponymous friend to visit him at his rented Malibu home:〔Harrison, p. 248.〕〔Clayson, p. 317.〕 Adopting a considerably more lighthearted approach than would be the case in his "storming, urgent" song "Bangla Desh" a couple of months later,〔Leng, p. 113.〕 these lines refer to international donations of rice, which "somehow" ended up becoming the property of the Indian Government instead and either being sold in government shops in India, or getting exported back to the West to be sold in Indian shops there.〔Harrison, p. 220.〕 ("Very strange," he concludes in his autobiography.〔) His disenchantment with the Californian surroundings and O'Dell's failure to turn up as arranged〔O'Dell, pp. 186–88.〕 are reflected in the next lines:〔Leng, p. 136.〕 In verse two, Harrison describes the ocean-front house, the balcony of which stretched out over the waves below:〔 Inside the house, neither he nor his driver Ben could get the record player to work,〔 and Harrison admits to his absent friend over the song's middle eight: "''I can tell you, nothing new / Has happened since I last saw you.''"〔 In her 2009 memoir, O'Dell explains that her escalating drug habit had been responsible for her non-attendance on the evening in question, as well as a reluctance to have to put up with scores of hangers-on around the ex-Beatle.〔O'Dell, p. 186.〕 In the song's third verse, however, Harrison shows that he too had no interest in the typical trappings of the LA music scene:〔 O'Dell eventually drove up the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu and found him, in keeping with the song's "''I'm the only one down here''" refrain, alone and feeling "pretty lonely".〔 After joking to her "I'm going to make you famous", Harrison played the new song, about which O'Dell would later write: "I heard George sing 'Miss O'Dell' many times in the years to come, but it would never sound as good as it did that night with the waves breaking and the breeze blowing through the room ..."〔O'Dell, p. 191.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 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