{"id":371370,"date":"2026-03-06T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:17:11","slug":"elvis-presley-was-jealous-of-iconic-rock-group-but-hes-finally-got-his-revenge-49-years-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371370\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley was jealous of iconic rock group \u2014 but he&#8217;s finally got his revenge 49 years after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took five decades, but Elvis Presley can finally claim a win in his rivalry with Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1970s, Presley and the British group fronted by<strong>\u00a0Jimmy Page<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Robert Plant\u00a0<\/strong>shared the same concert promoter \u2014 legend Jerry Weintraub. While Presley bore the moniker The King for good reason, he wasn\u2019t keen on giving up his throne. Meanwhile, the \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d rockers were ascending \u2014 selling out stadium after stadium and smashing attendance records along the way. None of that went unnoticed by Presley.<\/p>\n<p>One veteran agent familiar with the dynamic says the \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel\u201d crooner would invoke Led Zeppelin when venting to Weintraub. \u201cWell, I might not be Led Zeppelin, but I can still sell a few tickets!\u201d Presley told Weintraub, according to the agent. (Weintraub, who went on to produce the \u201cOcean\u2019s\u201d franchise, died in 2015.)<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8788788\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/elvis-presley-concert-bfi-imax-122339602.jpg\" alt=\"Baz Luhrmann at the UK Premiere of &quot;EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-8788788\"  \/>Baz Luhrmann at the UK premiere of \u201cEPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert\u201d. Brett D. Cove \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2026, and Presley is getting his revenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baz Luhrmann<\/strong>\u2019s documentary \u201cEPiC,\u201d which features concert footage of the pelvis-swiveling star at the peak of his powers, just passed last year\u2019s \u201cBecoming Led Zeppelin\u201d at the box office. Neon\u2019s \u201cEPiC\u201d stands at $15.5 million less than two weeks into its theatrical run. \u201cBecoming Led Zeppelin,\u201d which was released by Sony Pictures Classics, earned $14.7 million over the course of its theatrical life. Both films are hugely successful by doc standards. But in a head-to-head battle, Elvis is the King.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very goofy and funny,\u201d Luhrmann\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stcblink.pagesix.com\/click\/44542699.8\/aHR0cHM6Ly9wYWdlc2l4LmNvbS8yMDI2LzAyLzI3L2hvbGx5d29vZC93aHktZXZlbi1lbHZpcy1wcmVzbGV5LWFuZC1taWNrLWphZ2dlci1nb3QtdGVycmlmeWluZy1zdGFnZS1mcmlnaHQvP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1wNl9ob2xseXdvb2QlMjAlN0MlMjA0NDU0MjY5OSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPXNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9MjAyNjAzMDYmbGN0Zz02MDc5YTYzYmRjM2FiOTQ1NzI0ZTE0NGImYz1wNl9ob2xseXdvb2Q\/6079a63bdc3ab945724e144bB268d06dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told<\/a>\u00a0Page Six Hollywood\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Katcy Stephan<\/strong>\u00a0of his iconic subject. And apparently, very competitive too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It only took five decades, but Elvis Presley can finally claim a win in his rivalry with Led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1374,18,117,19,17,337,150431],"class_list":{"0":"post-371370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-page-six-hollywood"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116183607296900022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}