Late musician John Lennon disliked late boxer Muhammad Ali because he made The Beatles "look really stupid", claims photographer Harry Benson.
The band met the boxer on their first trip to the US in February 1964, when they were both on the brink of megastardom, but the meeting reportedly didn't go well as the legendary fighter -- who was still known by his birth name Cassius Clay at the time -- insulted the group, leaving them unimpressed.
Photographer Harry Benson had taken the 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' hitmakers to meet Ali -- who died in 2016 aged 74 -- when he was preparing for his Sonny Liston fight and they were waiting to appear on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He recalled to the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column: 바카라Ali dwarfed them. Just the repartee of Ali: 바카라You think you바카라re good-looking? You바카라re not that good-looking - you바카라re tiny, small, little men. Look at me!'
"They didn바카라t like it - Lennon and Paul McCartney in particular. He didn바카라t particularly like their singing, and told them that...Afterward, John said to me, 바카라He made us look really stupid, and it바카라s your fault, Benson.바카라
According to the photographer, Lennon, who died in 1980 and his bandmates, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison, refused to speak to him for three months as a result.
George previously described the boxer as "quite cute" and claimed Ali was "clamouring" to meet the group, but Harry didn't remember it the same way.
He said: "He couldn바카라t care less about them."
When Ali died in 2016, Paul shared a photo from their meeting as he paid tribute to the "beautiful, gentle" man.
He wrote: 바카라I loved that man. He was great from the first day we met him in Miami... He was a beautiful, gentle man with a great sense of humour.바카라
