Mick Jagger: I stupidly took John Lennon's advice not to meet Elvis

Mick Jagger: I stupidly took John Lennon’s advice not to meet Elvis

Stones singer says Beatle put him off speaking to Presley after being disappointed by ‘the King’. It was the great rock and roll encounter that never happened.

The two hip-swivelling singers – one British, one American – could have talked for hours about their musical influences, rabid fans and, of course, colourful love lives.

Yet when Sir Mick Jagger had the chance to meet Elvis Presley, he did the unthinkable and turned it down, after “stupidly” taking advice from another music legend: John Lennon. The Rolling Stones singer has revealed that the Beatle had warned him not to meet his hero after his own disappointing encounter with Presley.

Sir Mick, 82, said the Beatles had been introduced to Presley in Los Angeles, and Lennon had been so underwhelmed he told him more than once he should avoid meeting the King.

Sir Mick said he did not want to shatter his illusion of what Elvis would be like, but admitted he had made the wrong decision.

He said on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast: “No, I never met Elvis. You know why? I’ll tell you why. There was a showbiz journalist, I can’t remember his name, but he was famous at the time, and he took the Beatles in Los Angeles to visit Elvis. And there’s pictures of this.

“So they went up to Elvis’s house and his pool. They don’t remember anything. But I remember John telling me: ‘You know you should never meet your heroes, I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you.’ And so I didn’t.”

Source: telegraph.co.uk/Telegraph Reporters

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