O´Dell had already produced six movies, such as Brian Desmond Hurst’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in 1962, before his association with the Beatles, which began in professional terms with O’Dell taking an associate producer credit on Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring the Beatles and released in 1964.
O’Dell is generally credited with persuading John Lennon to go to Almería to star in the WWII drama “How I Won the War,” during whose shoot Lennon composed much of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” a milestone in the Beatles’ output.
An associate producer on “How I Won the War,” O’Dell took a full producer credit on the made-for-TV “Magical Mystery Tour,” directed by George Harrison, Lennon and Paul McCartney, after which he was tapped as one of the four non-Beatle heads of Apple Corps, launched in January 1968 to channel the group’s disparate artistic and commercial interests after Brian Epstein’s sudden death.
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