Cleo Odzer |
Cleo Odzer (nee Sheila Lynne Odzer,[1] 6 April 1950 – 26 March 2001[2]) was an American writer who authored books on prostitution in Thailand, the hippie culture of Goa, and cybersex. Contents 1 Childhood and time as a groupie 2 Hippie years in Goa 3 Return to U.S.; research in Thailand 4 Return to Goa, and death 5 References 6 External links Childhood and time as a groupie Cleo Odzer grew up in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Rena Abelson Odzer and Harry Odzer. Her father, president of a textile company, died when she was 16 years old.[3][4] She attended Franklin School (now Dwight School) and Quintano's School for Young Professionals, graduating from the latter in 1968. At about that time, she began writing about the music scene for a small Greenwich Village newspaper. Odzer met Keith Emerson, then member of the rock band The Nice and later of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, at The Scene nightclub. After receiving a Christmas gift from Emerson in 1968, she reported to the press that they were engaged. According to Keith Emerson's account that he related in his autobiography Pictures of an Exhibitionist (2003, ISBN 1-84454-053-7), there was no actual engagement [5] and Emerson learned about the "engagement" from the same February 1969 Time Magazine article that published her photo and described her as a "Super Groupie."[6] Odzer later claimed that the article was the reason for breaking off the "engagement". Shortly thereafter in 1969, Odzer recorded an album called The Groupies, produced by Alan Lorber, which essentially consisted of interviews with Cleo and some friends describing their adventures meeting (and sleeping with) rock musicians. Hippie years in Goa In the early 1970s, Odzer traveled in Europe and the Middle East and worked as a model. She spent the late 1970s in the hippie culture of Anjuna, Goa in India. Her experiences there, including heavy use of cocaine and heroin, the international drug smuggling used to finance the stay, and her subsequent two-week incarceration, would later form the basis of her second book, Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India (1995, ISBN 1-56201-059-X). For a time she followed the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India.[8] Return to U.S.; research in Thailand
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