Growing up in later Nineteen Fifties Liverpool, The Beatles had been profoundly influenced by Elvis Presley.

John Lennon was shocked by Heartbreak Hotel and famously mentioned: “Before Elvis there was nothing.”

Little did the Fab Four know that simply over a decade later and The King can be protecting their tracks at his stay reveals.

In reality, the 5 males who make up the 2 most profitable music acts in historical past met solely as soon as again in 1965, when Elvis invited The Beatles to hang around at his LA dwelling.

And now Sir Paul McCartney has revealed in a brand new interview one thing the band failed to understand about The King at first.

Promoting his private pictures on show on the National Gallery in London, Macca was requested by Christie’s about being influenced by others: “You were aware of many of the movements in contemporary photography happening all around you. Your friend Jurgen Vollmer was working as an assistant to the great William Klein.

“You knew the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Do you think their work consciously affected you as you made images on those trips?”

McCartney then went on to talk of Elvis.

McCartney shared: “When you’re young, you get excited by new and interesting things. I still do, but when you’re a teenager or in your 20s, you’re so driven and you soak up everything. It’s formative. But at that age, you don’t necessarily know how the things you enjoy fit into a wider narrative.

“With Elvis, for example, it took a while before we realised how important the influence of Sister Rosetta Tharpe or Jimmie Rodgers had been on him. You would just see Elvis and think, ‘Wow! I love this!’ And you would get excited and inspired by it.

“It’s the same with photography. We didn’t appreciate at the time how important photographers like Klein or Cartier-Bresson were to the story of the artform, we just thought their work was interesting.”

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