McCartney Times

It’s 1965, and John Lennon is perusing the entrance hall of Graceland, traipsing his finger through a film of dust on a commemorative ‘The King’ vase, awaiting Elvis Presley. When his former hero does arrive, the animosity is almost instant. In time, Elvis would go to the ultimate extreme and offer to serve as a spy for the FBI in a covert mission to have Lennon and his hippie cohorts in The Beatles deported. Sometimes, the old adage of never meeting your heroes really does stand up.“Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis, there would be no Beatles,” the singer once exclaimed. But as soon as he saw all the ‘All the Way With LBJ’ political paraphernalia in his lobby, that notion began to fade, and he dwelt on the dwindling returns of The King’s back catalogue. According to Tony Barrow, the former Beatles press officer who had organised this fateful tour excursion, “John asked what had happened to the old rock ’n’ roll Elvis, who at that point was mainly singing the soundtracks to his films. He was half-joking, but he meant it.”

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