{"id":799662,"date":"2026-07-14T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:11:10","slug":"mick-jagger-regrets-taking-john-lennons-advice-not-to-meet-elvis-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799662\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger regrets taking John Lennon&#8217;s advice not to meet Elvis Presley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an appearance on the Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend podcast on Monday, the Rolling Stones frontman revealed that John Lennon once warned him not to try to get to know the King of Rock and Roll. &#8220;I remember John telling me, &#8216;You should never meet your heroes. I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you.&#8217; And so, I didn&#8217;t. I took John&#8217;s advice. It was really stupid of me, really. I&#8217;d love to have met Elvis.&#8221; Lennon met Presley alongside The Beatles in 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During an appearance on the Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend podcast on Monday, the Rolling Stones frontman revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,375378,52312,134,14061,136,7558],"class_list":["post-799662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-conan-o39brien","tag-elvis","tag-entertainment","tag-john-lennon","tag-music","tag-rolling-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}