The Real Reason Keith Richards Didn't Want To Meet Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was born in January 1935, in Tupelo, according to Britannica. Keith Richards was born almost 9 years later, in December 1943, in Dartford, England (via Britannica). The American and the Brit would both go on to be rock giants, with Elvis just a little way ahead, chronologically. It was one particular song of his that sparked something in Richards during the latter's formative years.
In his autobiography, "Life," Richards shares a story from his childhood. One night, when he was supposed to be tucked up in bed, he was listening to Radio Luxembourg. The signal was poor, he wrote, but he caught something of a little song called "Heartbreak Hotel." Of the song, Richards stated, "that was the stunner. I'd never heard it before ... I had to go back to what this cat had done before."
"It wasn't that I suddenly wanted to be Elvis Presley. I had no idea who he was at the time," the book goes on, but he soon did. He went on to reveal that "A Date With Elvis," which released way back in 1959, was the first album he ever bought, and he treasured it, according to Far Out Magazine. Regardless of all of this, though, he never wanted to meet the King himself.
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