Lennon continued: “But [it wasn’t like] going to a Zen monastery and going to India to meditate. “Or going to Scotland and growing melons or something, whatever they’re doing up there in that place.” Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42 and would have been 86-years-old this year. While just two days after giving this interview Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980. Trending The Beatles and Elvis famously met in 1965 when The King invited the Fab Four to his LA home during the time in his life when he was busy making tons of Hollywood movies. The story goes that The Beatles were speechless at seeing their idol that Elvis had to break the ice by saying he’d have to go to bed if they didn’t talk to him.