Elvis Presley: John Lennon revealed the ONE major difference between King and The Beatles

Elvis Presley is one of the most famous rock and roll singers in history, and The Beatles shot to fame in the 1960s as the first major boyband to take the world by storm. But while one was an American crooner famous for such songs as Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes, The Beatles rocked with their particular brand of pop rock. And in one twist of fate, the two collided. But during that incredible first meeting, John Lennon revealed he learned the main difference that stood the two apart.

In a collection of unearthed interviews, Beatles’ members John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr shared their experiences of meeting the King.

But putting everything together, it seems as though while Presley was consumed by his fame and swamped by his entourage, the Beatles struggled to understand his lifestyle.

And what’s more, in a phone conversation about the meeting, Lennon revealed the band had been puzzled by Presley’s wish to shy away from interviews and TV appearances, saying the band would simply get too “bored” not indulging in everything the experience had to throw at them.

“We were asking him about just making movies and not doing any personal appearances or TV and he seems to enjoy it,” Lennon recalled. “I think he enjoys making movies so much.

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“He was just surrounded by these sycophants,” Starr recalled initially of the meeting. “[Elvis would say] ‘I’m gonna go to the loo now’, [they would say] ‘Oh ok we’ll all go to the loo with you’.

“It was just so strange, and I was just so angry because he wasn’t making any music. He was not doing what he should have been doing.

“And they just sort of faded out, you couldn’t get close,” the singer continued. “It’s not like we could have become good friends, it was impossible.”

“We weren’t buddies or anything,” Harrison went on. “But he was really nice. He was a nice guy. He was very slim, yeah he was really good, I’m glad I met him.”

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“He was great, it was one of the great meetings of my life,” McCartney echoed.

Starr also shared his disappointment over Presley’s decision to attempt to “ban” The Beatles from the USA.

“The sad part is,” Starr claimed, “we found out years and years later that he tried to have us banished from America. Because he was very big with the CIA and everything.

“That’s very sad to me, that he felt so threatened that he thought like a lot of people that we were bad for the American youth,” the singer laughed.