Elvis Presley Chose This Singer As Real King of Rock and Roll During Wild Confession to Tom Jones

Elvis Presley believed someone else should be called the King of Rock and Roll.

Presley scored the honor of being called the King of the rock and roll industry even after his death in August 1977. He set records no rocker ever reached yet and held sold-out concerts throughout his active career years.

However, the late musician believed someone else should have received the title instead.

Elvis Presley Thought This Musician Should Be the King of Rock and Roll

Presley made the confession about the musician who deserved to be the King of Rock and Roll during one of his conversations with Tom Jones. The musicians famously worked together by becoming each other's acts in their Las Vegas shows, cementing their friendships throughout the years.

Decades after the "Can't Help Falling in Love" singer's passing, Jones shared a story of his late pal and named the one musician Presley thought should be the King.

The "Green Green Grass of Home" crooner told the crowd of his Greenwich Summer Sounds concert on Thursday that he and Presley attended Chuck Berry's show one time, and the performance immediately captivated the King that he said the guitarist was the real King of Rock and Roll.

"So we go to see Chuck Berry where he was singing and playing and Elvis is looking at him on stage," Jones recalled. "And Elvis turned to me and said, 'There's the real King of Rock and Roll up there right now' and that's what Elvis Presley said about Chuck Berry."

After sharing the story, he told his fans they would like to pay tribute to the real King of Rock and Roll and started playing Berry's "Johnny B Goode."

Eric Clapton Also Thinks Chuck Berry Should Be King of Rock and Roll

Aside from Presley himself, more musicians also approved Berry as the one who should go by that title.

Clapton joined the long list of music artists who set Berry as their inspiration, saying he would not be a guitarist now if it was not because of the "best rock and roll guitarist." He revealed in the documentary "Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock' n' Roll," that the late guitarist was the only one who could play rock and roll the way it should be played.

"There is a whole mix of things I hear, Latin and country, jazz, the whole thing makes a beautiful hybrid," he continued. "I've heard stories that he was very bitter and he thought people have ripped him off, and in order to think that, you must be aware of how far your influence has spread."

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