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“I felt so embarrassed for him and I didn’t want to make things even worse”: Ian Anderson, the man who refused to meet Elvis Presley

Ian Anderson and Elvis Presley.

Jethro Tull were enjoying their rise to success in 1969, with second album Stand Up beginning to demonstrate the kind of band they were going to be. During that year’s US tour, they were invited to meet Elvis Presley, who’d just staged his career-saving comeback to rock’n’roll. In 2019, Ian Anderson told Prog why he refused an audience with the King.


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