{"id":604873,"date":"2026-05-26T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604873\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:15:08","slug":"paul-mccartney-recalls-pinch-yourself-moment-he-met-elvis-presley-with-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604873\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney recalls “pinch yourself” moment he met Elvis Presley with The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul McCartney<\/a> has looked back on the day the Beatles<\/a>\u00a0met Elvis Presley<\/a>, describing it as a \u201cpinch yourself\u201d moment.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0The Beatles: every song ranked in order of greatness<\/a><\/p>\n

McCartney and his bandmates famously met Presley only once in 1965, when they visited his home in Los Angeles in a meeting set up by NME\u00a0writer Chris Hutchins.<\/p>\n

Now, McCartney has looked back on the occasion in a new interview on BBC Radio 2\u2019s Tracks Of My Years, where he said of the late musical icon: \u201cHe was really great. He was a very handsome guy \u2013 but we kind of knew that. We were fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just followed everything he did, and we looked at any photo we could get. He wasn\u2019t a disappointment at all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

McCartney went on to say that he and all his bandmates, including\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a>, have discussed the meeting in the year since, and that their memories of what happened are \u201cslightly skew-whiff\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI say that we rang the doorbell and Elvis came to the door and said, \u2018come in guys\u2019,\u201d he explained. \u201cHe invited us in and we sat around and he had a jukebox, and played \u2018Mohair Sam\u2019, the record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cRingo says he didn\u2019t come to the door, we went in and he was sitting there. So who\u2019s right? I am,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

He added that it was a \u201cgreat evening\u201d, and that Presley \u201cplayed a bit of bass\u201d, saying: \u201cHe had a bass there and he was talking about the bass so we could talk, sort of, bass talk. He was great, very personable, very nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a bunch of his minders with him \u2013 and you read stuff later, and I think they were mainly his cousins, his gang.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney also described meeting the singer\u2019s wife, Priscilla Presley<\/a>, saying it was a \u201chighlight\u201d, and adding: \u201cYou\u2019re inviting four guys into your home \u2013 probably the last thing you need is them to be all over your wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great, she was great, Elvis was great,\u201d adding:\u00a0\u201cYou pinch yourself. I met \u2013 I actually sat with, like I\u2019m sitting with you, Elvis.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney has previously\u00a0declared Presley as one of the chief inspirations behind the band\u2019s classic album \u2018Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In other news, Macca will release his new album \u2018The Boys Of Dungeon Lane<\/a>\u2019 on May 29 (pre-order here<\/a>). So far, it\u2019s been previewed by \u2018Days We Left Behind<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Home To Us<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 his first duet with\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the run-up to the release, he\u2019s been\u00a0interviewed by his\u00a0Beatles\u00a0biopic counterpart<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Mescal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Currently going by the title\u00a0The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event, the films have been written by Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem,\u00a0Spectre), Peter Straughan\u00a0(Conclave,\u00a0Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy)\u00a0and Jack Thorne (Adolescence,\u00a0His Dark Materials), and they will star Mescal as McCartney, Harris Dickinson as\u00a0John Lennon<\/a>, Joseph Quinn as\u00a0George Harrison\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Barry Keoghan<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a>. They\u2019re currently slated for an April 2028 release.<\/p>\n

McCartney later playfully touched on Mescal\u2019s aptness for the role<\/a>. During his appearance on the last ever episode of\u00a0The\u00a0Late Show\u00a0last week \u2013\u00a0in which he sang a duet of \u2018Hello, Goodbye\u2019 with host Stephen Colbert before switching off the lights for good at the Ed Sullivan Theatre<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 he was asked who was cuter out of the two of them.<\/p>\n

McCartney simply grinned and pointed at himself. \u201cMe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After the crowd applauded, McCartney made clear that he was being tongue-in-cheek, adding: \u201cNo,\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0very cute, he\u2019s very cute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, McCartney has spoken about being unable to tell what songs Bob Dylan played when he recently saw him<\/a>,\u00a0why\u00a0he hates taking selfies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0why he is still baffled by \u201ca lot of this influencer stuff\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney has looked back on the day the Beatles\u00a0met Elvis Presley, describing it as a \u201cpinch yourself\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}