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On Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, Austin Butler revealed that he got to meet with the great Paul McCartney, and considering how he is an “enormous Paul McCartney fan,” he still finds it difficult to believe that he met with the legend.
Austin Butler – Explains How He Met With The Legendry Paul McCartney
The Elvis star, 30, recalled he first meet, and became friends with Paul’s fashion designer daughter Stella McCartney, 50 inside a bar in London. Stella invited Butler to her show in Paris Fashion Week, and even though Butler was supposed to be on a train going back to London, Stella convinced him to go to her show and after which he can take the train back to London together with her and her dad Paul McCartney.
Butler said when he finally met Paul, he was tongue-tied for more than two seconds. “Suddenly, we’re on the train,” Butler said, “We’re talking. It’s that thing where you tend to meet people that you really admire in a crowd and you can’t speak for more than two seconds. But with this, suddenly we’re locked in a train together. And so, we just talked and he was so human, and it was just amazing.”
Butler recounted that it was Stella who brought up Elvis Presley during their conversation in the train and he had to key into the opportunity to ask Paul questions concerning Elvis. “At one point, Stella said something about Elvis,” he continued. “And I took that as my moment. I said, ‘Paul, I haven’t met many people who actually had the opportunity to be in a room with Elvis. What was it like? What was your story?'”
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Austin Butler – Recounts The Story Of How Paul McCartney Met Elvis Presley
The Shannara Chronicles alum recounted Paul’s account of driving to Elvis Presley’s Beverly Hills home with the Beatles. “They knock on the door and Elvis answers, and he’s beautiful,” he said.
“At first, they didn’t know what to say to him, they’re just looking at him. Then, Elvis picks up a bass guitar and starts fiddling around, and Paul said, ‘You know, I play the bass.’ So, then Paul picks up the bass and Elvis picks up a guitar and they started jamming together,” Butler added.
He explained that they played together to “Mohair Sam” by Charlie Rich on the jukebox, which Butler had never heard. On the train, Paul asked Stella to pull up the song, and she gave one headphone to each of them.
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“Suddenly, I’m sitting on the train across from Paul McCartney. The French countryside is going by, and she plays the song he listened to with Elvis all those years ago,” Butler said. “And he’s drumming it out on the table and singing the song to me. And those are those moments where you just gotta pinch yourself and go, ‘I can’t believe this is my life right now.’ Then he gave me a hug and we went our separate ways.”
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