{"id":167430,"date":"2025-08-22T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:09:12","slug":"john-lennon-told-mick-jagger-to-never-meet-his-heroes-jagger-ended-up-regretting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167430\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon Told Mick Jagger to Never Meet His Heroes\u2014Jagger Ended up Regretting It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The adage to \u201cnever meet your heroes\u201d gets a little more complicated when you find yourself in the same circles as them. Musicians have a lot of the same heroes as we do; the only difference is that they might have a chance of forging a connection with them. Mick Jagger has met many fellow famous musicians, but there is one hero that he never got to meet, thanks to some advice from John Lennon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1969-mick-jagger-was-nearly-seriously-injured-by-a-stray-bullet-while-filming-ned-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>[RELATED: On This Day in 1969, Mick Jagger Was Nearly Seriously Injured by a Stray Bullet While Filming \u2018Ned Kelly\u2019]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why John Lennon Told Mick Jagger to Never Meet His Heroes<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles and Elvis Presley had an interesting relationship. While the Fab Four were certainly indebted to Presley\u2019s era-defining sound, their relationship got rocky as Presley lost the plot. Much happened between them, but the final nail was likely Presley\u2019s decision to ask the President if he should \u201cspy\u201d on the anti-American Beatles. There\u2019s really no coming back from that. <\/p>\n<p>According to Lennon, meeting Presley was a bit of a letdown. His main point of contention was the fact that he just seemed too \u201cnormal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just seemed normal to us, you know,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/when-elvis-presley-met-the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lennon once said<\/a>. \u201cAnd we were asking him about just making movies and not doing any personal appearances or TV. And he seems to enjoy it, you know. I think he enjoys making movies so much. We couldn\u2019t stand not doing personal appearances. We\u2019d get bored. We get bored quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of his lackluster meeting with Presley, Lennon passed along some advice to his fellow Brit-rocker, Jagger. <\/p>\n<p>Mick Jagger Regrets Not Meeting Elvis<\/p>\n<p>Like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones were massive Presley fans. Unlike the Beatles members, Jagger never got to meet Presley. After Lennon told him not to bother, Jagger avoided his hero. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never met Elvis either, because John Lennon once told me he was a real disappointment,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pauldunoyer.com\/mick-jagger-interview-2001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jagger once said<\/a>. \u201cSo I said I\u2019d take his advice because I\u2019d already had it with Chuck Berry and I didn\u2019t want it to happen again with Elvis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough now, of course,\u201d Jagger continued, \u201cI wish I had met Elvis, you know what I mean? You never think, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s gonna die soon, I\u2019d better hurry up and meet him.\u2019 Because in those days he wasn\u2019t very old. If nothing else, you\u2019d still be able to talk about it, wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Presley passed away before Jagger could find out for himself what The King was like. <\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Rose Hartman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The adage to \u201cnever meet your heroes\u201d gets a little more complicated when you find yourself in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,7657,43451,975,4185,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-167430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-lennon","10":"tag-mick-jagger","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-rock-music","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074470072598507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}