Beatles' John Lennon resented Muhammad Ali after knockout shoot: 'It was a mistake'
The Beatles weren’t eager to come together with "The Greatest."
It was 1964 when photographer Harry Benson took the Fab Four to meet Muhammad Ali. At the time, the fighter was preparing to go toe-to-toe against Sonny Liston while the band was gearing up to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
"When you photograph Muhammad Ali, you always get something interesting," Benson chuckled to Fox News Digital. "Ali told them, ‘Your music is not that good.’ Let’s just say they didn’t particularly like that. And then the Beatles said, ‘We hear you’re not that good as a boxer.’"
"They still laughed about it, but it wasn’t a match made in heaven," Benson added.
According to Benson, Ali kept declaring how the foursome were "tiny, small, little men" in comparison to his towering frame. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, in particular, weren’t impressed.
Source: Stephanie Nolasco/foxnews.com
