…George recalled the time he saw Elvis at his 1972 Madison Square Garden concert.
“At that time, I had my uniform: the wornout denim jacket and jeans–looked like a ragman–and I had a big beard and mustache, and long hair down to my waist,” George explained.
“They took me back in the intermission to meet Elvis again and he was in the back of the dressing room–the big rooms with the showers for the footballers and stuff–and I was in the front part just talking to some of the guys. And I’m sitting there, thinking ‘Well, where’s Elvis, then?’ And finally he came out of the back and he was … immaculate.
“I felt like this real grubby little slug and he looked like Lord Siva or something. He seemed to be about eight feet tall and his hair was black and his tan was perfect and he had this big white suit, a gold belt about four feet wide and he was towering above me and I just put a hand out (cowers) and said ‘Hello, Elvis, how are you?’–just cowering like this little ragman.”
Elvis looked amazing
The Beatles and Elvis had one thing in common; their throngs of fans. Only George thought Elvis’ fans had a part in killing him. George questioned whether Beatles fans wanted them to be Beatles for the rest of their lives until they died from exhaustion, like what happened to Elvis.
“They’ve got lots and lots of songs they can play forever,” George told Rolling Stone in 1979 about Beatles fans. “But what do they want? Blood? They want us all to die like Elvis Presley? Elvis got stuck in a rut where the only thing he could do was to keep on doing the same old thing, and in the end his health suffered and that was it.”