Mick Jagger Reveals the Advice He Regrets Taking From John Lennon

Mick Jagger, 81, Engaged to Melanie Hamrick, 37

Mick Jagger can’t let this advice from John Lennon be.

The Rolling Stones frontman recently revealed that the The Beatles singer, who died in 1980, told him to never meet Elvis Presley and admitted it was advice he wished he hadn’t followed.

“I never met Elvis,” Jagger admitted during an appearance on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast July 13. “You know why? I’ll tell you why. The Daily Mirror, an English tabloid, you always did publicity with The Daily Mirror and the Beatles did it. There was a showbiz journalist, I can’t remember his name but he was very famous at the time and he took the Beatles to Los Angeles to meet Elvis.”

As Jagger continued his story, host Conan O’Brien knew exactly what he was referring to.

“They were all high,” O’Brien recalled of the lore. “The Beatles were high and none of them have their story straight.”

But Jagger, 82, noted that Lennon was sure of one takeaway from the visit.

“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.”

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As O’Brien put it, “He disappointed him.”

Jagger emphasized, “He told me this story more than once.”

And so, the “Brown Sugar” singer opted to not meet Presley before his death in 1977.

“It sort of put me off,” Jagger explained. “I wanted to keep my Elvis to myself. My version of Elvis. I didn’t want my version of Elvis shattered like John’s was.”

Nevertheless, Jagger argued, “Maybe my Elvis version would’ve been different.”

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