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Cleo Odzer

First we heard about Cleo Odzer at Vintage Groupies Live Journal, we were into 60s models, 60s actresses, 70s groupies... and when we saw Cleo, we thought she was just in between!! she was a 60s goupie, we never heard about her but we saw in her a big smile and a face full of joy and happiness.

[Photo of Cleo published in "Rock magazine", 30th August 1969]

At that post in Vintage Groupies Live Journal, there was a short biography about her, and when we read it, we thought that Cleo was very brave, independent and had a really interesting life: starting as a music columnist when she was 17, then working as a model, travelling by bus through Europe and ending living in Goa, India, being a drug seller and dealer, sent to prison in Goa, going back to New York, being clean, earning a Ph.D. in anthropology, going back to Goa...

[Early 70s photo of Cleo modelling in Athens]

Reading that, and finding, as in many of our muses, there wasn't a proper site about her (well, it was her official site but the pics were very small and with a really bad quality), we decided to make a site for her on piczo... There, in that site, someone who met her, told us Cleo didn't die in Goa but she was murdered, as the entry was without name, we couldn't contact this person, but we decided to search for more information about her.

[Photo of Cleo taken in Goa between 1974-1979 when she was living there]

We found a Yahoo group done by Steve, this group had two rules: share whatever you have related to Cleo, but the pics from that group should be kept in that group... Why? Well, some of them were posted by some of her classmates and friends who shared some tidbits, but we felt sorry as on the internet there were just five photos of her and in poor quality...

[Cleo in Goa, screencap from documentary "The Last Hippie Standing"]

We saw there were some interviews, docs and clips about her at youtube so we decided to watch them to know more about her, and we decided to make some screencaps as well although the quality wasn't very good. We placed these screencaps at that group but the admin, this Steve told us he didn't want screencaps in his group, a las! as piczo didn't work anymore, we decided to place Cleo here just to make people aware of her existance, luckily we were sharing her and we saved all the photos from that yahoo group, as in time, that group disapeared as all yahoo groups did...

[1995 photo of Cleo published in her book "Goa Freaks"]

Cleo was also a very smart girl who was ahead of her time with the new technologies, and it's a pitty all her pictures must be kept secret when she, at the videos and at her website, shared everything she wanted with an open heart and an open mind...

We really hope more pictures of her surface on the net and nobody is afraid of sharing them, it's a way to keep her alive...

Today, for her birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Cleo and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR BIOGRAPHY OF HER, WITH LINKS TO AMAZING SITES

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

hello all!

welcome to my blog! i thought that i’d tell you all a brief bit or two about me so you can connect with me and my writing more! i do intend on being anonymous for the time being but who knows what the future holds :)

so, first things first, i am currently a seventeen year old sixth form student from a seaside city in england with high ambitions (fingers crossed on a masters and PhD degree, ay?). i love my lessons yawn and am currently on a life improvement kick, so i suppose that you guys will hold me accountable?

i am a fervent ravenclaw, an avid bookworm who hasnt read properly in about 5 years, a taurus INFJ with a gemini moon and virgo rising, i love tea although can’t seem to stop drinking iced coffees at the moment, i am a smart, independant and worthy young woman, history inspires me with electrifying awe and i aim to learn 9+ languages in my lifetime. currently i am at one and a half (thank you a-level french). 

my high ambitions lead me to aspire to get a masters degree, a Ph.D, to be a CEO or creative director and buy my own first house with no mortgage and achieve a sub-6 minute mile time and wake up at 4 am to see the sunrise and do yoga despite never having done it before. 

nonetheless there’s alot to be acheived! universe only knows if i’ll complete everything but i guess we’ll sharp find out >:[ i intend to post updates on my life and write posts about new experiences and hobbies, but additonally write articulate articles on fashion, the history of fashion, my adventures into culture and history as well as the aforementioned but before 0000AD too! (meaning ancient history lol). 

i hope you feel as voracious as i do and i hope you will tag along for the duration