“I remember John telling me, ‘Yeah you know, you should never meet your heroes,’” Jagger shared. “‘I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you.’”
At the time, Jagger took the advice seriously.
“And so I didn’t,” the Grammy winner admitted. “I took John’s advice, which was really stupid of me, really. I mean, I would love to have met Elvis! Why did I take John’s advice? At the time, it seemed to ring.”
Indeed, Even O’Brien, 63, remembered that Lennon was extremely disappointed in meeting the King of Rock.
“Famously, in the ‘64 tour, the minute they got to America, John kept saying, ‘Where’s Elvis, where’s Elvis,’” O’Brien added. “That’s the only person he wanted to meet. Then they met Elvis in Bel-Air at his house. John walked out and said, ‘Where’s Elvis?’ because that was not the guy he wanted to meet.”