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The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger<\/a> has shared his regret at not meeting Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n Jagger did have opportunities to meet Presley, too. However, after John Lennon had a bad experience with Elvis, he warned his friend off meeting \u2018The King\u2019, and much to Jagger\u2019s regret, he listened to the poor advice.<\/p>\n The rock icon made the revelation to Conan O\u2019Brien on the latest episode of the Conan Needs a Friend podcast, sharing, \u201cNo, I never met Elvis. You know why? I\u2019ll tell you why. There was a showbiz journalist, I can\u2019t remember his name, but he was famous at the time, and he took the Beatles in Los Angeles to visit Elvis<\/a>. And there\u2019s pictures of this.\u201d<\/p>\n Jagger added, \u201cSo they went up to Elvis\u2019s house and his pool. They don\u2019t remember anything. But I remember John telling me: \u2018You know you should never meet your heroes, I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you.\u2019 And so I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Much to his deep shame, Jagger took those words on board, adding, \u201cI took John\u2019s advice, which is really stupid of me, really. I mean, I would have loved to have met Elvis, why did I take John\u2019s advice? But I mean at the time it seemed to ring true.\u201d<\/p>\n He also shared that Lennon \u201ctold me all this story more than once\u201d which hammered the message home, and \u201csort of put me off\u201d.<\/p>\n The Stones singer continued, \u201cI wanted to keep my Elvis to myself, my version of Elvis, and so I didn\u2019t want my version of Elvis shattered like John\u2019s was. But maybe my Elvis version would have been different.\u201d<\/p>\n Lennon did publicly speak about his rather mundane encounter with Presley, which shattered the illusion of Elvis, once stating, \u201cHe just seemed normal to us, you know. And we were asking him about just making movies and not doing any personal appearances or TV. And he seems to enjoy it, you know. I think he enjoys making movies so much.\u201d<\/p>\n However, he did also say, \u201cHe\u2019s just\u2026 he was great. He was just how I expected him,\u201d which goes against the comments made by Jagger in regards to their private conversations.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the podcast with Conan, Jagger also reflected on his unique relationship with Lennon<\/a>, which was spurred on by their desire to constantly outdo one another comedically.<\/p>\n Jagger explained, \u201cI think John and I were very competitive too, John Lennon. But we\u2019re more competitive in being sarcastic. Just verbal competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
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