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Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns; Bettmann/Getty Images; Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images Mick Jagger had a missed connection with the King.
In a recent interview on the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, the Rolling Stones frontman recalled heeding John Lennon‘s advice to not meet Elvis Presley. “I remember John telling me, ‘Yeah, you should never meet your heroes,’” Jagger, 82, said. “So, I didn’t. I took John’s advice.”
Looking back, Jagger admitted that it “was really stupid of me” because he would “have loved to have met Elvis.”
The rocker said that Lennon would often tell him the story of the time the Beatles met Elvis at his mansion in Bel Air, Los Angeles. O’Brien, who helped add in a few details from the visit that took place during the Beatles’ 1965 tour of North America, suggested that Lennon was “disappointed” by the encounter.
“I wanted to keep my Elvis to myself, my version of Elvis,” Jagger said. “I didn’t want my version of Elvis shattered like John’s was. But maybe my Elvis version would have been different.”
According to Tony Barrow, the Beatles’ press officer in the 1960s, the band’s encounter with Presley was underwhelming. “John asked what had happened to the old rock ’n’ roll Elvis, who at that point was mainly singing the soundtracks to his films,” Barrow told The Guardian. “He was half-joking, but he meant it.”
