"No, I never met Elvis," Mick Jagger admitted in a wide-ranging interview on the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast.
The Rolling Stones' lead singer had a simple explanation for why his path never crossed with the King of Rock 'n' Roll. The reason came down to a bit of cautionary advice from a Beatle and a classic case of conflicting rock history.
"The Daily Mirror, an English tabloid that still exists, you always did publicity with the Daily Mirror, and the Beatles did it," Jagger began telling Conan O'Brien in the July 13 episode. "There was a journalist, I can't remember his name, very famous at the time. And he took the Beatles in Los Angeles to visit with Elvis. There's pictures of this. They went up to Elvis's house and his pool."
O'Brien chimed in that he remembered hearing about the visit. George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr walked into Presley's house, and he was watching TV and playing bass guitar. However, all four of the Beatles were high on drugs and told different versions of the events. It was Lennon's version that Jagger heard.
'Never Meet Your Heroes'"I remember John telling me, 'Yeah, you know, you should never meet your heroes. I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you,'" Jagger recalled. "And so I didn't; I took John's advice, which was really stupid of me, really. I would have loved to have met Elvis!"
Jagger went on to explain that Lennon told him the story of meeting Elvis Presley many times, emphasizing how "disappointed" he was.
"It sort of put me off," he said. "So I wanted my Elvis to myself -- my version of Elvis."
"I didn't want my version of Elvis shattered like John's was," he added. "But maybe my Elvis would have been different."
The Reality of the 1965 MeetingThe Beatles met the King on August 27, 1965, and many of the details O'Brien heard were later corroborated by Priscilla Presley, who was there. She also claimed that the five of them engaged in an hours-long jam session after Presley brought out his bass guitar. Despite what Lennon may have told Jagger later, Priscilla said that Lennon and McCartney even invited Presley back to their Benedict Canyon house. He didn't go, but members of his inner circle did.
"When they returned, they said that John wanted Elvis to know that without him there would be no Beatles," Priscilla said.
Jagger missed out on meeting his idol because he took a friend's disillusioned advice to "never meet your heroes." Instead, Jagger chose to protect his idealized version of the King of Rock 'n' Roll rather than risk disappointment. While only the people who were in the room will ever know for sure what happened that day, history suggests Lennon's negative account may have been exaggerated.
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